How To Survive After A Nuclear War.

[disco man]

Very interesting read.

British simulation considered psychopaths key to post-nuclear war survival | Townsville Bulletin

[p38arover]

DM, are you Bob10's son?

[disco man]

ha ha you cheeky bugger Why do you ask

[Saitch]

DM, are you Bob10's son?

That's my "Comment of 2014" winner so far

[bob10]

A paper exercise only. I spent two years instructing at the RAN NBCD [ nuclear, biological & chemical defence] school, and the general consensus was, after an attack of that magnitude, the only action you could take was bend down, put your head between your legs, & kiss your arse goodbye. Mutual destruction was the only thing stopping them pressing the button. That movie, " On the Beach " got it pretty well right. Bob

[Carzee]

A paper exercise only. I spent two years instructing at the RAN NBCD [ nuclear, biological & chemical defence] school, and the general consensus was, after an attack of that magnitude, the only action you could take was bend down, put your head between your legs, & kiss your arse goodbye. Mutual destruction was the only thing stopping them pressing the button. That movie, " On the Beach " got it pretty well right. Bob

I recall a scene from Mad Max (saw it at the Drive In) when he's opening an old can... and eating Dinki Di.

Assuming the nukes or the fallout don't get you the main threat over the longer term is food, water, infection and fertility issues.

How many urban people who have the skills to grow a tend a crop.. or a flock or a herd and then store/defend the produce?
Will any of them think "I will make money if I can find a truck and get some of this into town and sell it to a Supermarket.."

Not going to happen.

And don't mention fishing. The giant mutant seagulls will get you.

[Roverlord off road spares]

A paper exercise only. I spent two years instructing at the RAN NBCD [ nuclear, biological & chemical defence] school, and the general consensus was, after an attack of that magnitude, the only action you could take was bend down, put your head between your legs, & kiss your arse goodbye. Mutual destruction was the only thing stopping them pressing the button. That movie, " On the Beach " got it pretty well right. Bob

That Movie On the Beach, still gives me a chill feeling, especially when the family with kids commits suicide by driving off the cliff on the Great Ocean Road.

[p38arover]

The radio station in On The Beach was either at Rockbank (Vic) or Fiskville - both were owned by my first employer, the Overseas Telecommunications Commission.

I'll ask on Friday at the Overseas Telecommunications Veterans luncheon.

Fiskville (named after Sir Ernest Fisk) is now the CFA training college.

The name of the property comes from Sir Ernest Fisk, the Chairman of Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited (AWA) when the property was owned and managed by AWA and used as a long distance radio communication station as part of the Imperial Wireless Chain. The original California Bungalow style buildings at the front of the property are still used as accommodation for student firefighters and were originally built to house the station's technical staff and their families. The original generator building now houses the Teaching Centre while the concrete blocks used to anchor the aerials' guy wires are still visible in multiple locations around the property.

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[BMKal]

Long before seeing the movie "on The Beach", I remember reading the book by Neville Shute. Was one of the best books I have ever read, and one that stuck in my memory for many years .................. unlike most of the other rubbish I was forced to read in my high school years.

[bob10]

That Movie On the Beach, still gives me a chill feeling, especially when the family with kids commits suicide by driving off the cliff on the Great Ocean Road.

I read the book, the part that sent a shiver up my spine was at the end, when survivors had made it to Antarctica, which was the only place on Earth regarded as radiation free. They were holding a meeting, to work out a plan for the future, when in walked a man holding a radiation monitor, the monitor was screaming like a banshee, the reading off the dial. That was the end. During the Cold War, I actually thought that was going to be the future for humanity. Still might be, if Iran & Korea get the bomb. Bob