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How's your nuclear bunker coming along?

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TerriBull Thu 25-Jan-24 16:25:27

Well mine isn't, even if hypothetically I could afford such a structure, or have somewhere to put it. I mean what's the point? why would anyone want to emerge into, a world that's decimated, it kind of smacks of being cryogenically frozen or whatever Walt Disney had done to himself. Utterly futile and preposterous are my thoughts, better to go in the big bang.

It was with amusement that I skim read an article a while ago as to where Mark Zuckerberg's is sited and then that expanded on the non perishable food that would be needed, not forgetting pet food etc. etc. So if some megalomaniac does his worst, I say he because most of them seem to be identifying as male as far as we know. No doubt they will be safely tucked up in their all mod cons bunker, along with various billionaire technocrats, dodgy mafia, oligarchs, tax evaders, those who form that dubious body known as the WEF and at some stage, as their food supplies dwindle they will have to emerge into a barren waste land, where nothing is likely to grow, or even have a water supply. The world's little people will have been blown to kingdom come, which is a downside if you are such a person who wishes to have a disposable bevy of malleable but expendable prolls at your service. Oh well at least they'll have each other!

So would you fancy your chances in a nuclear bunker or opt for oblivion ?

Germanshepherdsmum Thu 25-Jan-24 16:27:04

Oblivion, definitely.

MaizieD Thu 25-Jan-24 16:29:15

Oblivion here, too.

TerriBull Thu 25-Jan-24 16:48:38

I simply don't understand the rationale behind pinning your hopes on surviving in one. Given that a nuclear bomb has never been dropped, thank God and hopefully never will even though we are constantly reminded of an approaching Doomsday scenario, how could anyone know whether it would withstand the blast, umpteen times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and what sort of world would be left shock Just don't get that whole "Me and mine are too special to go with the rest of humanity" clutching at straws! About as sound as high born ancient Egyptians being sent off into an afterlife surrounded by wordly treasures, essentially batshit over optimistic about an unknown.

nanaK54 Thu 25-Jan-24 16:51:38

Add me to the 'oblivion squad' please

fancythat Thu 25-Jan-24 17:39:01

Nuclear bunker please.
I am ever the optimist!

petra Thu 25-Jan-24 17:39:12

In the 80s we were living very close to Bradwell nuclear power station, and as we know the 80s were a very precarious time with Russia.
We joked that at least it would be quick 😱

Smileless2012 Thu 25-Jan-24 17:52:57

Oblivion for me too.

Bella23 Thu 25-Jan-24 18:00:52

I've lived most of my life with the threat of Sellafield on the doorstop, oblivion, please.

Whitewavemark2 Thu 25-Jan-24 18:31:48

There is a large country estate in Sussex whose house is used by the security services. There is a bunker in those grounds.🙂

TerriBull Thu 25-Jan-24 18:42:22

I'm wondering Whitewave, if that's the house that a notorious criminal landlord built, huge pile with a gold dome. somewhat abandoned though. He's exactly the sort of infamous person who'd fit in well with the others who think their skin us worth saving.

Auntieflo Thu 25-Jan-24 19:51:03

Oblivion here.

AGAA4 Thu 25-Jan-24 20:00:29

Choose between oblivion or a very slow death by starvation.

M0nica Thu 25-Jan-24 20:36:07

I cannot be bothered to think about it. I have lived near nuclear installations most of my life and never bothered to give it a thought. There is nothing I can do about it anyway. if it happens, it happens and I will consider the issue then.

MissInterpreted Thu 25-Jan-24 20:39:02

I'm firmly in the oblivion camp too!

fancythat Thu 25-Jan-24 20:46:42

It's just me and the infamous then!

Grannybags Thu 25-Jan-24 21:07:04

Oblivion for me - far too claustrophobic in a bunker!

Shinamae Thu 25-Jan-24 21:16:21

Definitely oblivion for me as well
I think after awhile, the people in the bunkers
will go mad and turn on each other..

NotSpaghetti Thu 25-Jan-24 23:15:05

In the 80s we had friends who built and stocked a bunker for their family.

I think it depends on the blast - size, position etc what use it might be.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 26-Jan-24 08:14:14

TerriBull

I'm wondering Whitewave, if that's the house that a notorious criminal landlord built, huge pile with a gold dome. somewhat abandoned though. He's exactly the sort of infamous person who'd fit in well with the others who think their skin us worth saving.

No this is a very discreet place. Blacked out expensive cars come and go, they eat in a well stocked restaurant, and it is all extremely low key.

I guess they would be the ones conducting the nuclear war!!

TerriBull Fri 26-Jan-24 08:27:23

Interesting! Thanks for that snippet of information WW, hope it's not too near me, living just into Sussex on the Surrey side. Oh what does it matter though Iin the great scheme of things we're all mere pawns. They're welcome to their bunker, I hope there's a special place in he'll for such people.

ronib Fri 26-Jan-24 08:34:24

In Switzerland each household has a bunker , I think in the basement, which is stocked with essential items and tins of food etc. I don’t know if the Swiss plan to upgrade as the one I saw looked quite flimsy against nuclear weapons.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 26-Jan-24 08:36:19

What is interesting is whether they will leave their loved ones outside? Or is there room for them? Tbh I doubt it.

I know that at the height of the Cold War my Aunt - married to a major in the Canadian Army, was contacted by her husband to take the children to their lodge on one of the lakes, probably during the Cuban crises.

M0nica Fri 26-Jan-24 08:37:27

You will have no say on what happens to you, death, (why oblivion, another eupemism) or surviving and the state you will be in is entorely out of your control.

grandMattie Fri 26-Jan-24 08:40:26

Germanshepherdsmum

Oblivion, definitely.

Absolutely.
Besides I live in a flat. Where on earth could I have a bunker???