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One sunny morning, you wake up quite early because you left your shades open, and the sun gleams through the window, forcing your eyes to open. You look outside, smile at the birds that are gathering in a distant tree, and you look back to your room. You figure that now is a good time to turn on the television, and check for some good morning cartoons to start your day off well, but on the way to the channel, you stop at a news station, where it has just been announced, seconds ago, that nuclear weapons have been fired, and one is heading right for your city, and will hit in thirty minutes. You panic, and you run around your room, thinking of what to do.

So...what do you do?

Hypothetical Situation

Meh. Maybe in your example, Iraq had nuclear capabilities but no ICBMs, so sent over the nukes on top of a scud missile. :p

Laugh maniacally as I hide in my bunker, realizing that step #456 of my master plan for World Domination is complete...

Hope that everyone else slept in and decide that that would be the best time to learn how to drive and get the hell out of there.

Then again the 91 Freeway is packed no matter what...

Damn you Riverside County....damn you...

EDIT: Wait, if GTA: San Andreas has taught me anything, it's that you can always drive over cars in the case of a traffic jam. Yes...I've started a traffic jam in the freeway in San Andreas...

Laugh. Who would aim nuclear weapons at us? No one. (Except maybe the Italian football team, but they would miss anyway, as usual)

Flee while on my mobile phone trying to get my family/loved ones out of the city.

Gather everyone I like (that's not many people), and get the hell out of Dodge... Err, Houston.

Flee while on my mobile phone trying to get my family/loved ones out of the city.
...:(...Your no fun. The least you could've said was post a thread on NS General about how there was a nuke coming to your city in 30 minutes and say goodbye to everyone...and THEN talk to your friends/loved ones.

Drive somewhere else very quickly. Preferably upwind.

...:(...Your no fun. The least you could've said was post a thread on NS General about how there was a nuke coming to your city in 30 minutes and say goodbye to everyone...and THEN talk to your friends/loved ones.

NS will still be there when (if) I reach my destination.

I shall pray until my knees bleed. Jebus shall save us. Yeah... you unbelievers won't be saved though. Infidels! :mp5:

Damn you, Bush--see what you've ... oh erm, this is hypothetical? Okay then.

Kiss my ass goodbye and hope to hell I'm close enough to the epicenter to be immediately incinerated, 'cause radiation sickness sucks big wind. And in the say 20 minutes or so I have until impact, I think I can manage to swallow a fair number of pharmaceuticals kept on hand.

Only thirty minutes eh? Well, then I'd look for those cartoons and make some toast, because chances are you'd be screwed anyhow. May as well be vaporized on a full stomach.

Only thirty minutes eh? Well, then I'd look for those cartoons and make some toast, because chances are you'd be screwed anyhow. May as well be vaporized on a full stomach.

Exactly my thoughts. :p

Seriouly? Even if you run the **** out of there as fast as you can (on foot) for a half-hour you can't escape the nuke?

Even if you DRIVE?!?!?!

Run naked in the streets (and hope the news item was correct).


Truth? Well, I'd want to be with as many of my family as I could and say goodbye to those I couldn't over the phone.

reminds me of the bad old days of the Cold War. Back in 1983 (anyone remember the movie the "Day After") it was a big concern. Hell, the Soviets went on nuclear alert back then and we didn't even know about for a while. Reagan making jokes about "the missiles are on the way" in a press conference...

My plan back then was to simply drive over to the Shell Refinery in Baytown Texas, the biggest in the world, and park by the front gate so it would be over quick (big second strike target). Later the plan evolved sailing to Belize with my girlfriend, a lot of guns and whatever food I could grab, and hoping the Nuclear Winter wasn't going to be as bad as they initially feared. And that "On the Beach" was simply a bad novel.

Now I live in a small city, and only have to worry about fall out. Thankfully I am out of the direct fall out pattern for both LA and Vandenberg AFB. So we can die nice and slow or not.

Somebody watching "24" this evening???

Seriouly? Even if you run the **** out of there as fast as you can (on foot) for a half-hour you can't escape the nuke?

Even if you DRIVE?!?!?!
I'd sure as hell give it a shot!

Duck and cover. From what I remember that works, right?

Anyway I think my college has a bomb shelter I would head there with food and guns and hope the time I spent playing Fallout and Fallout 2 wasn't wasted.

If possible leave the area, if not meditate until the bomb goes off...

I'd do your mom

reminds me of the bad old days of the Cold War. Back in 1983 (anyone remember the movie the "Day After") it was a big concern.

I bought that movie, thinking it was Day After Tomorrow, without thinking, and I went home and watched it. It was actually a good movie, for the time it came out in, but it was so depressing... seeing all those families that were introduced, and how quickly all of their lives ended.

Well I'd try and get a flight out of there if I could but if I couldn't guess I'd have to just do everything I wouldn't do before since I'm going to die anyway might as well have some fun.

I'd go to the house's basement bunker and hope that the missile was aimed on the city's center. As i live in far side of my home city, Helsinki (in FInland) I believe my chances are pretty good. If that nuke was a small, tactical one. But I think more interresting is to think what would people do after the destruction of their hometown, if they survived. I think I'd head to the military base in Santahamina and try to sign in, as after a nuclear strike I think I'd be accepted to defend our country. Persuming that the strike would be followed by an Russian assault all over the country. Even as I'm 16 years old, I think in circumstances like those I'd be for some use,too.. AND THEN, those m**********n russians would be ruined.

Ride over to the most crowded place I could find, and preach atheism. Just to give people something to argue about before they die(so they might forget their impeading doom for a few minutes).

Ohh, and I would get a rifle and take pot-shots at the missile. Might get lucky ;)

I bought that movie, thinking it was Day After Tomorrow, without thinking, and I went home and watched it. It was actually a good movie, for the time it came out in, but it was so depressing... seeing all those families that were introduced, and how quickly all of their lives ended.

It gave me the horrors when it came on TV back in 83. I was right in the middle of taking an upper division Sociology course on Nuclear War and its effects, and between the course work and the show I had nightmares for weeks after. The best part is after the movie was over, good ole Carl Sagan comes on ABC news (which naturally had a special report) talking about the fact that the movie was if anything minimizing the effects. Then he introduced all to the concept of nuclear winter (which has been since reexamined to be a nuclear autumn).

Ride over to the most crowded place I could find, and preach atheism. Just to give people something to argue about before they die(so they might forget their impeading doom for a few minutes).

Ohh, and I would get a rifle and take pot-shots at the missile. Might get lucky ;)
Yeah maybe instead of it blowing up the ground around you for you to be swallowed up by earth and ashes, you could just have a fiery blast come right at your face.

Go back inside and watch the carnage. There's a mountain between me and the nearest city. Even if it IS coming here, in 30 minutes I can be WELL outside the blast radius.

Interstate on-ramps are designed so that in an emergency, you can use them just fine backwards. The four lane divided limited-access highway near my home would be four high speed lanes the fuck outta dodge. Thirty minutes is more than sufficient warning for me even if I can't make it to the highway.

I would go down to my basement with a supply of water, food and iodine pills. Next I would secure, remove all loose objects that may become projectiles from the blast wave. Selecting a wall facing away from the direction of the blast, I would collect as many flame retardant blankets as possible, assume a sitting position, loosen my belt and tie. Undo the top button of my shirt and pants and wait. Once the flash occurs I would assume the crash position by pulling my knees up lowering my head and kissing my ass good-bye.

Ohh, and I would get a rifle and take pot-shots at the missile. Might get lucky ;)

Good luck with that. :p

I would continue watching my cartoons, I mean they are more important that any old nuke.....lol

Also I feel somewhat safe here in the U.S with all those anti missle things that are all over the country, plus why should I be scared when the patriots can shoot 2 out of 3 missles in the sky?


lol I love being a human....

Yeah maybe instead of it blowing up the ground around you for you to be swallowed up by earth and ashes, you could just have a fiery blast come right at your face.

A .30-06 wouldn't set off a nuclear explosive. Thats the whole point of these kinetic-energy missile destroyers they make, to not set off the nuclear explosions.

hmmmmm......I don't think 30 minutes would be long enough to even get out of town. If I hit all the connections perfectly, I might be able to get, say, maximum 15 km/10 miles away. I don't think that'd be quite enough. So probably just turn off the TV, pray, and spend time with my wife. :fluffle:

Set up a lawn chair, get some alcohol and a couple of cigars, and "Embrace the doom!"

After all, death in a nuclear blast would be painless, it would be instant, and I'd rather go out that way than suffering from cancer for weeks on end.

It would be a decent way to go.

But in reality, I'd probably go hide in the tunnels underneath Steeb, Smith, Park and Stradley. The buildings were build during the cold war, and one of their chief design features is that they are capable of housing a goodly number of people underground during a nuclear blast. According to the schematics, the tunnels go several levels underground, and OSU is far enough away from the center of Columbus for it to be feasable that buildings would survive.

Ohh, and I would get a rifle and take pot-shots at the missile. Might get lucky ;)


I'd be right there with ya' Chellis.
The ultimate duck hunting.

hmmmmm......I don't think 30 minutes would be long enough to even get out of town. If I hit all the connections perfectly, I might be able to get, say, maximum 15 km/10 miles away. I don't think that'd be quite enough. So probably just turn off the TV, pray, and spend time with my wife. :fluffle:
Here's a calculator. The largest warheads on most ICBMs or SLBMs are one-three megatons. A heavy bomber can carry more, but you get like, three hours warning with those, if not more, so that's clearly not the case here.

http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Science/Nuke.html

Largest bomb ever detonated was a fifty megaton bomb, detonated by the USSR, very primitive device, but big, very big.

Yeah maybe instead of it blowing up the ground around you for you to be swallowed up by earth and ashes, you could just have a fiery blast come right at your face.
Actually, city-busting nukes do detonate in the air. The optimum air-burst height for those is around 650 meters up, if I remember correctly. Nuclear strategy dictates you only use groundbursts against hardened military targets, groundbursts waste large amounts of the weapons energy on the surrounding terrain. No, groundbursts are counterforce, airbursts are countervalue.





Good God, I sound like Dr. Strangelove...

i would shave my groin.

i would shave my groin.
And that came out of left field...

Well, I'm lucky in that not only do I live in a relatively small town (about 70,000), but there are multiple ways out of the city that do not rely on the main interstate than runs NE-SW through town.

There are three people living in my house, and I give us five minutes to gather supplies. One gets a storage bin from the basement and loads up as much non-perishable food as possible. One gathers as many blankets and towels as possible, and I'll probably gather clothes and emergency items such as batteries, flashlights and so forth...

...sadly, the cat gets left behind.

It will take me about five minutes, assuming traffic has not picked up, to get to the road I would take to make a high speed dash away from the city. This would give me 20 minutes at about 75 mph, but we'll guess conservatively and say about 15 minutes. I can get about 20 miles west of town before detonation...that ought to be enough.

From there, I head northwest to my grandparents house in the middle of nowhere in North-Central Wisconsin...isolated, remote, has a well (hopefully the groundwater doesn't get contaminated)...and just wait out the insanity. :p

I'd get out the old baseball glove and stand on the roof. I'd probably also try to find the old cather's face mask--for safety.

Take the cats with you Delator, they are smaller than you and more vulnerable to radiation. That way if you come across a hot zone, they will get sick first, giving you some warning.

Take the cats with you Delator, they are smaller than you and more vulnerable to radiation. That way if you come across a hot zone, they will get sick first, giving you some warning.

:headbang:

I knew there was a reason why I should take that furball with me!

Thanks! :)

I would probably:

Reflect on my life to date: 2 minutes
Pray for Mercy: 28 minutes

How does that sound?

Heh, no one with nukes knows where New Zealand is. To answer your question, I'd have a really good view of it hitting the city from my window.

I live in a small town (9000 people) pretty much on top of NORAD, so yah I guess a nuke might head over here

I would set up a webcam aimed in the direction of whereever the nuke was going to hit, or was coming from. at least my last act would provide some entertainment.


Oh, and I would eat my cat. I've had dog, but never cat. So I think I'd eat my cat.

So...what do you do?
I would hop on my bike and cycle as fast as i could out of the city.

I wouldn't drive because the roads would be clogged.

Laugh. Who would aim nuclear weapons at us? No one. (Except maybe the Italian football team, but they would miss anyway, as usual)

LOL Same here. It's just too unlikely. Since i assume most people have never heard the name of the place where i live, it's all too unlikely. :)

Shut the curtains and turn my music up, probably! :D

One sunny morning, you wake up quite early because you left your shades open, and the sun gleams through the window, forcing your eyes to open. You look outside, smile at the birds that are gathering in a distant tree, and you look back to your room. You figure that now is a good time to turn on the television, and check for some good morning cartoons to start your day off well, but on the way to the channel, you stop at a news station, where it has just been announced, seconds ago, that nuclear weapons have been fired, and one is heading right for your city, and will hit in thirty minutes. You panic, and you run around your room, thinking of what to do.

So...what do you do?

I call my mum and my dad, and say good-bye. it would be fun to express some kind of malice towards the people that regularly make my life shitty, but there's something to be said for leaving some things unsaid. I grew up at a time when that was considered all-too-likely (the Cold War), and we had a lot of time to consider how to deal with the end of...well... everything.
I wouldn't want to survive a Nuclear War. It's one of those where the survivors truly would envy the dead. Luckily, I still live in a target-rich environment, and when the bombs go off, I probably won't feel a thing.

Probably cry like a wee little girl... then drink myself into surly oblivion

I would most likely start wondering why they would waste a nuke at somewhere with no strategic value at all. Then i would get into my car and start driving madly away. At most i could get around 40km's away from my home seeing how many back roads we seem to have to everywhere. While doing all this i would be praying for two things.

1. That the Australian Military has some sort of anti-nuke weapons and can take it down.

2. That when it hits im far away enough.

Nuke eh?
Well i don't see the harm there! I've trained most days of my life!
I get nice and tipsy reaching a state of mind in which i feel invulnerable, wait till the nuke is due to impact and calmly stoll to the point of impact, say "is that the best you can offer us bush boy?" and then be wiped from the face of the earth!

Am i not a hero? or at least a raving fool? :)

Have a quicky and then wait for a hopefully quick and painless death.

"If your in this blast radius of a nuclear bomb you will die instantly where as if your in this area the temperature will rocket to 200 degrees your house and clothes will set fire then your eyeballs will begin to melt"

Anyway if a nuclear holocaust happened I would lock myself in the pub cellar and drink myself to death as quickly as possible.

I might live in Australia's largest city, but I live on the edge of it. In half an hour, I'd be well and truly out of Sydney, and, assuming that the thing was aimed at the geographic heart of the city (which is not far from Olympic Park, so a reasonable target on a game day at Telstra Stadium) I'd probably be safely out of range. On the other hand, if it was aimed at ANSTO, I'm screwed.

I might live in Australia's largest city, but I live on the edge of it. In half an hour, I'd be well and truly out of Sydney, and, assuming that the thing was aimed at the geographic heart of the city (which is not far from Olympic Park, so a reasonable target on a game day at Telstra Stadium) I'd probably be safely out of range. On the other hand, if it was aimed at ANSTO, I'm screwed.

My thoughts exactly, 'cept i'm in Melbourne.

I'm probably far enough out that I could probably go back to bed and just drive away if the fallout is blowing in my direction later.

My wife and I would hump like rabbits until the end.

My thoughts exactly, 'cept i'm in Melbourne.

I'm probably far enough out that I could probably go back to bed and just drive away if the fallout is blowing in my direction later.

I'm going to live near CBD, just across the big Bridge and Flinder. Do you think I have any chance of escape? TRAMS!! SAVE ME!

thats what i would do, and if no one wanted me i would go on a rape spree.
i mean there are no consequences right? we are all gonna die

I'm going to live near CBD, just across the big Bridge and Flinder. Do you think I have any chance of escape? TRAMS!! SAVE ME!

You could jump in the river. The gunk will probably protect you from the radiation. :p

You could jump in the river. The gunk will probably protect you from the radiation. :p

I bet the gunk would catch fire.

Well Since I am still in the Military, it would probably be my ass they were aiming for. Or atleast the base I live on. So I would probably have to spend the last 30 mikes of my life armed to the teeth, uncomfortable as sin in flak & khevlar and probably telling some dumb PFC everything is gonna be ok. Though if I survived: Radiation Mutant fighting TIME!

I'd flip a coin to see if we sheltered in place in the basement or jumped in the car and drove in land. I have enough necessities on hand to hold out for a long time. Also have a bag ready to go with stuff for several days for the whole family if we drove out.

Probably chamber a round, muzzle under the chin, and send my molars through the cieling, Kurt Cobain style. Or, I could grab my kevlar out of the garage, and let the Hydra-Shok round race through my head like a gerbil on a wheel.

Ren- have you gotten the new PGAST cutback kevvie yet? They are NICE. You can actually get your neck up to shoot while in the prone. Which is a mmot point, because we have the new interceptor vests, anyway.

thats what i would do, and if no one wanted me i would go on a rape spree.
i mean there are no consequences right? we are all gonna die

That's sick and wrong! Even though there are only consequences for 20-odd minutes, they are still consequences! Do you know how terrible a rape is?

Rant over. (smoke clears)

I bet the gunk would catch fire.

Hehehehehe. Probably. Check it out.
http://www.theage.com.au/text/ffximage/2005/01/18/yarra_kew_wideweb__430x287.jpg

Now look at the river, and wonder why it is that putrid brown colour.

http://www.schmidt-christoph.de/otherst/yarra.jpg

Maybe he should take his chances with the radiation after all...

One sunny morning, you wake up quite early because you left your shades open, and the sun gleams through the window, forcing your eyes to open. You look outside, smile at the birds that are gathering in a distant tree, and you look back to your room. You figure that now is a good time to turn on the television, and check for some good morning cartoons to start your day off well, but on the way to the channel, you stop at a news station, where it has just been announced, seconds ago, that nuclear weapons have been fired, and one is heading right for your city, and will hit in thirty minutes. You panic, and you run around your room, thinking of what to do.

So...what do you do?
Crouch into a fetal position, grip your ankles, bend your head down between your legs ... and kiss your sorry ass goodbye! :D

i would drive to Mexico...avoiding big cities and military bases...

One sunny morning, you wake up quite early because you left your shades open, and the sun gleams through the window, forcing your eyes to open. You look outside, smile at the birds that are gathering in a distant tree, and you look back to your room. You figure that now is a good time to turn on the television, and check for some good morning cartoons to start your day off well, but on the way to the channel, you stop at a news station, where it has just been announced, seconds ago, that nuclear weapons have been fired, and one is heading right for your city, and will hit in thirty minutes. You panic, and you run around your room, thinking of what to do.

So...what do you do?

I'd make breakfast, shower and go to work as usual.

Hey, I'll maybe die, but for heck's sake I WON'T be late for work - I'm German after all! Ve are alwayz on time!

10 minutes I would smoke weed, and then go to roof of some tall building to get the best view possible of that nice nuke.

Always trying to get best out of every situation :)

10 minutes I would smoke weed, and then go to roof of some tall building to get the best view possible of that nice nuke.

Always trying to get best out of every situation :)

So the glass is half-full for you. ;)

Crazy Optimists :p

One sunny morning, you wake up quite early because you left your shades open, and the sun gleams through the window, forcing your eyes to open. You look outside, smile at the birds that are gathering in a distant tree, and you look back to your room. You figure that now is a good time to turn on the television, and check for some good morning cartoons to start your day off well, but on the way to the channel, you stop at a news station, where it has just been announced, seconds ago, that nuclear weapons have been fired, and one is heading right for your city, and will hit in thirty minutes. You panic, and you run around your room, thinking of what to do.

So...what do you do?
Laugh at the pathetic length of time it's taking for an ICBM of nuclear capability to reach my city. Seriously dude, they take about 4 minutes tops.

Of course, then I'd do a 'When the wind blows' and follow govt. advice, eventually fying from radiation sickness as the govt. lets us down stupendously.

Laugh at the pathetic length of time it's taking for an ICBM of nuclear capability to reach my city. Seriously dude, they take about 4 minutes tops.


For the sake of the situation, I made the ICBM's much much slower. I mean, given 4 minutes, you can't really do anything either way. :)

For the sake of the situation, I made the ICBM's much much slower. I mean, given 4 minutes, you can't really do anything either way. :)
Meh. Maybe in your example, Iraq had nuclear capabilities but no ICBMs, so sent over the nukes on top of a scud missile :p

Meh. Maybe in your example, Iraq had nuclear capabilities but no ICBMs, so sent over the nukes on top of a scud missile :p

Perfect! I'll edit that into the first post.

Crazy Optimists :D

Hey, my karma is too good for me to die anyway.

And if despite that, I die, then better die happily (i definitely would take one LongIslandIceTea with me on the roof) and don't miss anything, stupidly trying to get away from inevitable in huge hurry.

Always in too big hurry people are. No good.

Laugh. Who would aim nuclear weapons at us? No one. (Except maybe the Italian football team, but they would miss anyway, as usual)I would. And I will. Hmmm...this Friday at 8:33 AM sounds good, doesn't it?

~Czardas, Supreme Ruler of the Universe

Hmmm...What would I do? Nothing. After all, I'd be sitting in a saucer-shaped craft watching the explosion turn the Earth into plate glass. :p

And if I lived on Earth?

Transform into my Ganymedian form, dig up my steel radiation suit from the closet, get up into a saucer-shaped craft, and watch the explosion turn the Earth into plate glass. :p

Seriously...

~Czardas, Supreme Ruler of the Universe

One sunny morning, you wake up quite early because you left your shades open, and the sun gleams through the window, forcing your eyes to open. You look outside, smile at the birds that are gathering in a distant tree, and you look back to your room. You figure that now is a good time to turn on the television, and check for some good morning cartoons to start your day off well, but on the way to the channel, you stop at a news station, where it has just been announced, seconds ago, that nuclear weapons have been fired, and one is heading right for your city, and will hit in thirty minutes. You panic, and you run around your room, thinking of what to do.

So...what do you do?

Hypothetical Situation
possibly think "at last" and go be with my family. if i'm at uni rather than home, i get in my car, and get out of Cardiff... sod the roads i'm going cross-country in my 1.2l Corsa! :D
then get to my family

oh and post a bye-bye message here ;)

That's sick and wrong! Even though there are only consequences for 20-odd minutes, they are still consequences! Do you know how terrible a rape is?

Rant over. (smoke clears)
He seems to have an obsession with rape judging from previous posts...

I'm pretty sure he wouldn't really enjoy it if I or Choqulya for that matter raped him.

Well, I have many things I'd do (in many different situations). It ranging from praying to God for thirty minutes, to finding out where the nuke is going to hit, go there, and run around in circles screaming.

Sunglasses and earplugs will help temporarily with the discomfort of the blast.

Well, I have many things I'd do (in many different situations). It ranging from praying to God for thirty minutes, to finding out where the nuke is going to hit, go there, and run around in circles screaming.Ha.


~Czardas

One sunny morning, you wake up quite early because you left your shades open, and the sun gleams through the window, forcing your eyes to open. You look outside, smile at the birds that are gathering in a distant tree, and you look back to your room. You figure that now is a good time to turn on the television, and check for some good morning cartoons to start your day off well, but on the way to the channel, you stop at a news station, where it has just been announced, seconds ago, that nuclear weapons have been fired, and one is heading right for your city, and will hit in thirty minutes. You panic, and you run around your room, thinking of what to do.

So...what do you do?

Hypothetical Situation

No-one in the world cares enough about Bognor to want to glass it, so I would watch the television with a degree of interest.

Heh... nuclear bunker under my towns common. The only good thing our local council ever did. Absolutely ridiculous, cos even a 10 megaton nuke would have great difficulty hitting us on the outskirts of London. However, it does contain food, and water enough for 200 people over two years, and I ain't gonna let nearly that number in. And anyway, I like spam (the meat, not the email - The Hole doesn't have a net connection).

So what do I do in that thirty minutes? Get me, my mates, my mates families, my family and any good looking girl of breeding age into the Hole. Seal hole.

2 years later: Leave Hole. Rollerblade on glass crater.

Laugh at the pathetic length of time it's taking for an ICBM of nuclear capability to reach my city. Seriously dude, they take about 4 minutes tops.

Of course, then I'd do a 'When the wind blows' and follow govt. advice, eventually fying from radiation sickness as the govt. lets us down stupendously.


What rocket system are you talking about? I would like to see the specs for an ICBM going 6000 KM plus in 4 minutes. Got the links I am really interested in see this amazing rocketry system. Maybe if Canada fired a missile at me it would take 4 min. Where in the world do you live? That might also make the 4 min theory liable. Hmm I can honestly say that this first time my curiosity has been piqued by someone on this forum. Congrats.

To my knowledge, I had some hands on in the US Air Force; it takes 35 min on average for a Russian made ICBM. So in theory you would have 35-40 min depending on what city you live in compared to where it was fired from Russia. If N. Korean or Iran fires it, it would take 30-43 min for them to get to the west coast of the US. According to recent intelligence they are using 1960 technology from Russia and China to propel their ICBM. Although these ICBM's from Iran and Korea have a 12000 KM range. SO if they travel 12000 Km in, lets just make it an even 30 min, then 6000 KM would take 15 min. right?

Now if it was France, Great Britain it would take 20-30 min depending on where the missile was fired from to where it was going.

I am interested in your sources Tribes of Longton. I always like to read up on this stuff.

To the original starter to this thread

I would head to my nuclear bunker with my family, we live outside of the city limits but we do live near a military highway. My bunker is stocked and refreshed with food/water and other basics. We could live in it, the 4 of us, for 6 years before we started to run out. After that well not sure what we would do...

In fact anyone that lives near the express ways in US is living by a primary nuclear target.

put duct tape on my windows.

put duct tape on my windows.

Now that's sense talking.

If its going to Boston, i get radiation sickness, if its going to Hanscom AFB, im a pile of dust.

Id probably hope i grow a tentacle from the radiation, that would be cool

Open my windows, Put on my Favorite DVD, Crack open the bottle of wine I was saving for a special occasion, put on my shades, and enjoy.

or if my Girlfriend was around, go out with a bang!

Spend it with my man, no question.

Put my head in between my legs... yada, yada, yada.

Honestly, I'd probably just pray.