COVID-19: Demand for underground bunkers soars over fears of coronavirus pandemic http://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...s-over-fears-of-coronavirus-pandemic-12156996
They are a good idea......similar to underground nuclear bunkers...... .........good idea for any old contractor to start building them at inflated prices........... .......could even offer a 100 year guarantee............. ........after all, who exactly is going to sue the contractors if they fail to prevent deaths.....????
Basically the public (both UK & USA) have financed & paid for billions to be spend on structures to keep weapons safe. Now the 'doomsday' industry wants the rich public to pay for those same sites which. Lets be frank about it, Russian Federation will definitely be targetting just in case. They still have equipment or the odd nuke stowed away. So these imho idiots are trying to survive a disaster in a place which is inevitable going to be attacked. Now obviously been someone of little means this is my psychological avenue to feel better about others surviving such-n-such scenario. But I think even ex-military would admit its worth blowing up those places for the peace of mind factor. Said it before; in europe certain countries have actually built facilities for their large populations to survive long term disasters including nuclear exchange or M.A.D. Where the fuck is my place in the british public nuclear bunker queue...oh that's right. You're ahead of me now so slow down, there is no place for me. Or most likely you either.
If the U.K. got nuked we’d all be fucked. Because the likelihood of it just being one nuke is very slim so the U.K. would be gone. And one warhead alone depending on its poundage would most likely destroy the whole of London and Kent with its fallout. Wouldn’t take much to level the whole U.K. equally the retaliation means that numerous other countries would also cease to exist. It’s all very well and good having a bunker, but what you doing for food? What you doing for air? Water? Power? It would need to be a substantial, heavily developed facility which is WELL out of reach for 99.98% of people. the actual detonation of a nuke, is not where the problems end. That’s just the very beginning.
See I'm a fairly blunt guy when it comes to these sorts of topics. Why the hell should I hate on Russian Federation when my own government does'nt give a shit about me. If they don't arm & equip UK soldiers with decent body army in conflict zones...nor build community nuclear shelters. You think I should focus some sort of anger on a people or government in a foreign land?!?! Because they've been painted as the enemy or scapegoat. To the abusive relationship my own government have to earning for Police officers...or nurses or fireman. No no, I'm silly ....I'll realign my demented views onto a population who've done me no harm. In fact the RF-hackers broke the story that the Tories where selling parts of the NHS to the americunt corporations not so long ago. But don't ever look at the truth, blame the hacker for illegally intercepting stuff that the UK & USA governemnt do too other nations (including allies in EU/illegal under international law) continually.
I agree mate. if the U.K. puffs out it’s chest and started ww3 with Russia, I’d do anything and everything I could possibly do to get as far away from the U.K. as possible. I’m not fighting for a country that has very little identity and doesn’t give the slightest fuck about me. My priorities would be my friends and family and good humans in general.. not a bunch of politicians. As far as I’m concerned they can sort it out amongst themselves. They’re nothing to me. I think short of putting a gun to the public’s head and making them fight, the U.K. would struggle to mobilise the kind of forces they did in ww1 or 2. However.. as we know from covid, many of the U.K. populous are extremely easily won. So it wouldn’t be that hard to turn them against people from another country (proven historically) or even better.. turn the U.K. public on each other and shame those who won’t fight... hmmmm familiar ... These people in other countries are just like us, they have families. They live, they love, they work, eat, shit etc. Propaganda is a dangerously powerful tool. Just look at the Nazi regime. We fought to destroy it, but the tactics are still very much a thing in 2020.
Talking of nukes,...from RT (Hiroshima was destroyed by a 15 kilotons). Even a single Bulava missile, capable of carrying 6 to 10 warheads with a nuclear payload equivalent to 100-150 kilotons each, could wreak havoc on any territory it hits. Nations target cities firstly; London would have a spray of nukes & it would be annhilated. UK has what 70 odd cities, so expect at least 1-for-1. This is what gets me about conversing about disaster. 'Barking-idiot-trump' has stated twice declared total destruction of both Iran & DPRK; some 100+ million people. The world should be declaring USA a rogue state who promotes terrorism openly at the U.N.
Without sounding like a new age hippy, I really wish that the people would come together.. not just within each country, but across the board. In the U.K. alone it seems that the government and the media outlets are absolutely hell bent on dividing us and turning everyone against each other. Divide and conquer springs to mind.
still got me on ignore just because i have options? an option i have taken pretty much for the reasons you stated.
My new house is a couple of miles from GCHQ, I'd probably be vaporised or at the least nice and crispy if it all kicked off. Not really worth worrying about.
Well all the above is of no consequence to me. I very much hope WW3 never happens, but if it did I would not be worried about confirmation of my reservation at a nuclear shelter, because I and 99.90% of the population don’t have one . Thanks but no thanks I would prefer to have my 3 minute warning, try and bash one out for the last time and be vaporised with a smile on my face. A post nuked world is of no interest to me at all... oh and the bikes electrical system would be fried as well.
With absolutely impeccable timing, I moved out of a property that had the use of an underground bunker situated in a patch of woodland attached to the house almost exactly a year ago Children shown for scale (pics taken in 2013)
Yes. It comprised two underground rooms approx 10' x 10' each that were completely derelict and in fact it looked as if a tramp had been living in there at some point in the past as there were empty wine bottles and beer cans everywhere. At one point I was considering a change of career to "Bond Villain", but the whole thing foundered on the rock of bureaucracy. See, the wiring was 1930s vintage by the looks of it and so it needed upgrading because if I was going to be burning holes in the moon or trying to shoot down the space station with a big laser I didn't want to be blowing fuses every few minutes. And given that my ultimate plan was to kidnap the world’s leading physicists and force them to teach me how to meddle with the very fabric of time and space, I also had to consider disabled access for Steven Hawking. Bleedin' EU 'elf and safety rules and all that. However, that was in the days before Prof Hawking passed away and, also, now that we are leaving the EU, doubtless regulatory red tape will be reduced (or not, lol), and so if it wasn't for the fact that my landlord wanted the house back, I would have been on track to rule the world (bwahaha etc). Anyhoo, perhaps we should change the subject now, as not only is the thread veering off-topic you’re probably thinking that there are very few stories that start with, “So.... I was chatting to this guy I met on the internet who had an underground bunker in the woods" which have a happy ending
Near Brentwood in Essex there are tourist trail signs to visit the secret nuclear bunker, it’s not exactly a roaring success as no one can find it!
I’ve been there a couple of times and it’s a really interesting if not slightly macabre day out. It just looks like an ordinary bungalow that has been plonked down rather incongruously in the woods, but inside is a rabbit warren of tunnels, utilities/plant, situation rooms and dorms. I’d definitely recommend a visit if/when we’re released from house arrest again.
Around the UK, but mainly in the South and East, there are quite a number of small bunkers constructed for WW2.....they had hidden accesses and escape holes, blast walls etc. They were very well hidden and constructed so that 4 to 6 men from the fitter echelon of Dads Army could hide in them and carry out sabotage raids on the Germans......their life expectancy was reputed to be about three weeks if the UK was invaded.
That's absolutely fascinating and has scratched a decade-long itch as I had no idea what it was for and neither did the owners of the "big house" which I lived behind in a converted stable/mews. My best guess was that as the woods backed onto a railway cutting carrying the main Euston and Kings Cross line to the north and it was only a couple of hundred meters from the entrance of a long and no doubt stategically important tunnel, it was intended as an air-raid shelter for railway workers. However, by pure chance I came across a very similar structure earlier this year when mountain biking with my sons in woods near a town in Herts that was not near any major infrastructure, and one of them actually did suggest that they might have been constructed as ambush or rallying points for civil defence in the event of invasion in WW2 or the Cold War. I'm not sure what good they would have done other than being a mild nuisance because there didn't seem to be any mounting points for heavy armaments and you'd struggle to get more than a platoon inside, so the enemy could have easily neutralised them with a tank or even a few infantry armed with a couple of panzerfausts or similar.
