AmexRuislip
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If you can remember the old BR sandwiches, I bet they'll survive a nuclear blast!
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If a nuclear bomb landed on Reading...
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If you can remember the old BR sandwiches, I bet they'll survive a nuclear blast!
Gritt23
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Classic Brent.
Gazwag
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With the prevailing wind west to east I think fallout could be a small issue
SUIYHP
The King's Gull
Unfortunately if a nuclear bomb was dropped on Reading or some other hellhole, I wouldn't fancy my chances staying in Brighton with the gigantic cloud of irradiated death that would almost certainly engulf the city. Irradiated Brighton=no more PL, no more Falmer, no more Harveys...
On the bright side, no more southern rail.
On the bright side, no more southern rail.
el punal
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Yoda
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Worthing and Brighton would be unscathed but Portsmouth and Croydon would be affected (not that anyone would notice).
There's a website that calculates bomb blasts and suchlike. Not sure the casualties figure is correct but this little diagram has pleased me greatly today.
http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Unfortunately you've only accounted for 3rd degree radiation burns there. Both Worthing & Brighton along with Cheltenham, Northampton & Bedford would suffer from 2nd degree burns, and as far as Southend, Eastbourne, Bournemouth, Poole, Bristol, Worcester, Coventry, Kettering & Cambridge would suffer from 1st degree radiation burns.
Wrong-Direction
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Those Swindon lot are little slugs with no personalities!
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Typical NSC really. Only looking at the negatives of a nuclear apocalypse.
Remember, bedwetters: every mushroom cloud has a silver lining!
If Reading got hit, it would be a ruddy travesty as Bracknell has only just rebuilt their town centre...
studio150
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When's it being dropped I want to get some good photos of the mushroom cloud so that I can post on social media #byebyereading
Buzzer
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Precisely. And as you have pointed out, that map is on the basis that the Russkis use their biggest bomb. Let's face it, they're not going to use their good stuff on Reading are they? And if they do then a bit of sun factor 50 will avoid any issue regards burns.
Two Professors
Two Mad Professors
If the bomb fell on Reading the whole UK would glow in the dark,I'm afraid.Quite a lot of radioactive stuff at Aldermaston,Burghfield,etc,so all a bit Dr.Strangelove.
grubbyhands
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I'm fukced then in Godalming.
Worthing and Brighton would be unscathed but Portsmouth and Croydon would be affected (not that anyone would notice).
There's a website that calculates bomb blasts and suchlike. Not sure the casualties figure is correct but this little diagram has pleased me greatly today.
http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Why would anyone bomb Reading?
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Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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I had a go to see what would happen if North Korea dropped one on Tokyo. If they drop it on the Imperial Palace I'm in trouble. Where I live is on the edge of the Air Blast Radius and Thermal Radiation Radius so my apartment could get flattened and if I survive that I'll be getting third degree radiation burns.
On the plus side, I live a 90 second sprint away from a very deep subway station on a train line that is rumoured to be nuclear bunker ready so if I get a heads up I might survive. Whoop whoop.
If N.K drops it over the Diet(the Japanese equivelent to the houses of parliament) I'll only have to contend with the third degree burns.
If they drop it over Tokyo Tower, I survive! Unless I'm at work then I don't.
On the plus side, I live a 90 second sprint away from a very deep subway station on a train line that is rumoured to be nuclear bunker ready so if I get a heads up I might survive. Whoop whoop.
If N.K drops it over the Diet(the Japanese equivelent to the houses of parliament) I'll only have to contend with the third degree burns.
If they drop it over Tokyo Tower, I survive! Unless I'm at work then I don't.
Worried Man Blues
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I presume a wind would carry the fallout further East, depends on how the wind blows............fortunately one reason for living in West Wales, no not the only.
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Don't worry mate, you will be okay because you are different class.