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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 ?

merlotgran Fri 26-Jan-24 08:42:52

ronib

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.

Good old Switzerland. Looking after number 1 to the very end.

Juliet27 Fri 26-Jan-24 08:43:34

You were thinking of Hamilton Palace terribull

ronib Fri 26-Jan-24 08:50:18

grandMattie The Swiss use basements for bunkers. Geneva can fit only 75 percent of population into existing bunkers so it will be interesting to see if Switzerland steps up its bunker provision. The price for neutrality?

Jane43 Fri 26-Jan-24 08:51:03

Definitely oblivion, I am still haunted by the book The Road.

TerriBull Fri 26-Jan-24 08:51:23

I didn't know what it was called, but having Googled it, yes that's it Juliet.

My husband keeps telling me it was worse in '62 from his recollections, definitely teetering on the edge. Right over my head, I was still at junior school sometimes it's better to be completely oblivious it saves a lot of angst over situations that the individual has no control over. .

Urmstongran Fri 26-Jan-24 09:02:25

Any kind of klaxon for nuclear Armageddon and I’d be in a dead faint on the floor anyway.

When I read novels about post apocalyptic fiction it frightens me enough not to want to be one of the survivors.

Juliet27 Fri 26-Jan-24 09:11:12

Yes terribull it was scary in the early 60s and I remember someone coming into my school to talk to us about what to do if there’s a four minute warning.

pascal30 Fri 26-Jan-24 09:20:43

I remember one day in school whilst we all waited for the red button to be pressed. I assume we would have hidden under our desks as there weren't any contigency plans as far as I know..

Kalu Fri 26-Jan-24 09:30:25

Why bother with a bunker as when all provisions run out, the party’s over! There will be no nipping out to the supermarket to re stock or any possibility of planting. The bunker residents really haven’t thought this through.

henetha Fri 26-Jan-24 09:51:26

I don't even have a cupboard under the stairs which I could hide in. - No stairs. It'll have to be oblivion I suppose.

maddyone Fri 26-Jan-24 09:57:53

Hitler lived in a bunker at the end of the war.
That didn’t go well did it!

Septimia Fri 26-Jan-24 10:08:18

Has anyone visited one of the Secret Nuclear Bunkers from the 70s/80s that are now open to the public? Very interesting but quite chilling.

Of course, they were intended for the people who would run the country and the forces. The Civil Defence force had bunkers, too, but they were only so that the small number of people inside them could monitor the spread of radioactivity.

The general public were expected to fend for themselves. I can't see the point, though, of saving those running the country, local and national, if there are no people left to govern...

karmalady Fri 26-Jan-24 10:12:21

I live in the moment, what will be will be, it is not in our hands. Oblivion for me

MissInterpreted Fri 26-Jan-24 10:43:23

Septimia

Has anyone visited one of the Secret Nuclear Bunkers from the 70s/80s that are now open to the public? Very interesting but quite chilling.

Of course, they were intended for the people who would run the country and the forces. The Civil Defence force had bunkers, too, but they were only so that the small number of people inside them could monitor the spread of radioactivity.

The general public were expected to fend for themselves. I can't see the point, though, of saving those running the country, local and national, if there are no people left to govern...

Yes, I've been to the one in Fife. Absolutely fascinating - but as you say, also very chilling. It has a room where they play various films related to nuclear warfare and public information - does anyone remember watching 'Threads'?

Lovetopaint037 Fri 26-Jan-24 12:55:56

This post has really cheered me up.

henetha Sat 27-Jan-24 00:02:55

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