Are we closer to Nuclear war than we think.

A nuclear detonation would in all likelihood render your mobile phone, along with computers and anything electrical, useless.  

Ever the optimist eh, ZG. Back in the 70's & 80's we hoped we would get at least some notice, today the missiles are quite different. The chances are the first you will know about it is a bright flash at which point forget your mobile phone, and if you havent got a below ground safe space with a stash of drinking water, it's goodnight Vienna. Tbh, in such circs it may be better to get it over with quickly. 

Surely the satellite detection system has improved as well Red. 

Also when nukes were first invented it was mistakenly believed that the nuclear fallout would make it impossible to go outside for a thousand years. Now we know that its a couple of months so long as you don't enter the actual killing ground. 

Not suggesting its OK btw. 

We're a similar age and I remember an interview with a General who was giving advice. When asked what he would do he said, climb on the roof and watch the show.

Don’t bet on it. As part of the millennium bug ‘preparations’ i was paid rather a lot to make sure the billing system used by one of our then mobile and internet providers would ‘withstand’ the millennium and in the course of that proved that their billing arrangements with Barclays were in fact at first not capable of such operation, and not through a fault at their end.

With revised arrangements in place (i don’t know what Barclays changed, it took them a week to do it) the billing system worked perfectly.

However, come the hour, so many millions wanted to say happy new millennium the cellular system overloaded, crashed and burned. Had any calls got through they would have bern charged. Loads did not

The real world scenario for such armageddon involves total shutdown of civilian communication. This exercise is just bullshit laced with a stress test of whatever hardware and software they put in place since to handle overloading of the kind that maks buying glasto tickets such fun ..,

Indeed. Assuming the nuclear war was national and global. 

There was panic buying and fights over toilet rolls after lockdown. With that in mind just how much do you think people would behave themselves after even one or two nuclear weapons were used on the UK. 

Probably the most accurate view of what would happen.. I recommend the whole movie to those who have not seen it.