Keeping the tractor running after nuclear war

oil barron

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id be more worried about the road warriors trying to steal your life

I don’t think a mild nuclear attack would lead to the total destruction people think it would. There is a true story of a Japanese man who worked for Mitsubishi corporation. On his way to work at Nagasaki he hears the air raid siren and goes for cover in a rice paddy. Boom. Nagasaki is gone. He then goes and gets a train to Hiroshima . He is just letting his bosses know about what he saw at Nagasaki when boom. That town is gone aswell. He later went on to bear children.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi
 

Paul E

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I don’t think a mild nuclear attack would lead to the total destruction people think it would. There is a true story of a Japanese man who worked for Mitsubishi corporation. On his way to work at Nagasaki he hears the air raid siren and goes for cover in a rice paddy. Boom. Nagasaki is gone. He then goes and gets a train to Hiroshima . He is just letting his bosses know about what he saw at Nagasaki when boom. That town is gone aswell. He later went on to bear children.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi
Best keep well away from that jinxed fekker then!
 
Difficult to model the exact effects of even a limited nuclear exchange. Parts of the world may find their food supplies are contaminated with fallout and have to be discarded.

Major population centres and governments could be wiped off the map or so damaged they might as well be. Financial markets of all kind would be paralysed to say the least, I guess they would suspend trading?

Electrical networks could be hit from the EMP effects, certainly things like TV and mobile phone networks would be from nearby blasts, even if their hardware was not damaged or destroyed physically.

Health and emergency services would be overwhelmed instantly. I think in both urban and rural areas citizens would be left to fend for themselves. Looting and theft would be obvious consequences of this as people steal what they can while they can.

Areas involved would need a massive international aid effort by countries who were unaffected. I don't think the UK maintains stocks or natural gas or aviation fuels sufficient for any great stretch.

At the very least, a lot of us (the lucky ones) could expect to be living in tents in areas known to be uncontaminated, drinking bottled water and eating rice donated from abroad.
 

Still Farming

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South Wales UK
They been excluding meat for 40years alledgedly after Chernobyl fall out and rains on the hills ,so a Proper Nuclear war food and land be contaminated longer and Worst.
Wonder if all the "activists " groups would be "choosy " with food then if Survived in first place?
 

A1an

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With everything going on in the world at the moment and the re-introduction of battefield nuclear weapons by the US, it seems fairly likely we are going to see some form of thermo nuclear use within the next 5 years.

What is everyone’s contingency plan to keep ECUs Alive during this? Should we buy spares and keep them in a lead vault? Or have a contingency plan to bypass the ECU.
And the award for the most random thread on internet forums goes to....
 

oil barron

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Location
Aberdeenshire
They been excluding meat for 40years alledgedly after Chernobyl fall out and rains on the hills ,so a Proper Nuclear war food and land be contaminated longer and Worst.
Wonder if all the "activists " groups would be "choosy " with food then if Survived in first place?

Plenty of Nukes gone of already. The Americans were evening detonating them in the atmosphere in the 50s just to see the effects.

 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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