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Nukeprepuk has been developed to help the UK population prepare for nuclear war. At present the situation is this:
1. As it stands (01/01/25) there has been no official advice as to how to prepare for nuclear war in the UK. The Protect and Survive advice for the cold war era is still available, but debatable if it's still adequate for today's world.
2. We know from the 'toilet roll' panic buying at the beginning of Covid that once official advice is provided it is likely that items, possibly essential items, will become very scarce, very quickly.
3. Other countries are preparing, Switzerland for example has a longstanding policy that all homes are built with a nuclear shelter in place.
4. The wars in Ukraine and Gaza plus events in North and South Korea show the world is currently on the brink of world war.
5. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight.
It simply makes sense that all households in the UK, rural or urban, coastal or inland, high-rise or mansion, should prepare well in advance to ensure supply for all can be maintained once official announcements are given.
This site aims to provide you with:
- information on stocks and materials that will likely be sought by the masses and links to sites where these materials can be bought from today.
- essentials to suit your budget. Sadly, it is highly likely, that the financially poorest will find it most difficult. However, a little bought over time (and let's hope we have it) can mount up and you will be glad of it when the world around us starts to panic and stocks become decimated.
- information on what stocks and materials will be best suited to the location, area and building you live in
- practical advice. Stocks and materials listed on the Prep Shop page, in the main, can be things incorporated into your current every day living, then utilised when the time is needed.
Examples:
- Sandbagging of soil will likely be your friend. You will need soil and sandbags - or at least something to fill up with soil. Will you dig up you garden when the official word is given? Will you have the sandbags to put it in?
- Fire fighting equipment. If your home is within a few miles of the blast, there will be fire, and likely lots of it. Plenty of buckets of water or sand will be needed, as will extinguishers and fire blankets. These are all things that it's good to keep in the home anyway. Increasing the amount over time will do no harm.
- First aid and medication. No harm in having an abundant supply of first aid equipment in the home. But stocks like this will likely become very scarce after any announcement.
If you have never considered prepping before perhaps now is the time to at least think about it and to start building a supply of what you feel is essential.
I will provide my opinions on this site. Your opinion may differ. It is designed to be in addition to any official advice that may come which we should never dismiss. At least when that advice comes you will have some stocks and materials that could help you, your family, and the country war effort.
Nuclear blasts will come in different sizes. I have based my opinions on an 800kt ground burst blast which seems likely for my area. The weapons used could be significantly larger, in which case you should be more pessimistic in terms of surviving the blast and prepping for it. Equally, the weapon used could be smaller and you can be more optimistic. It is unlikely that even military experts will know for certain, but an average sized weapon used on an average sized town of 170k population seems logical.
An airburst will increase the damage from heat and blast but produce less fallout radiation. A surface detonation the opposite. Logically it seems likely that targets on the western side of the UK and Ireland will receive a number of surface detonations, as will airports, military bases and seaports. With prevailing winds blowing from the South-West to the North-East, this will rain down radioactive fallout onto the UK mainland. Targets in the Eastern UK perhaps more likely to receive airbursts to cause wider damage. This damage then further impacted from subsequent fallout dust from the west falling in the next few hours and days. Central targets will perhaps be a mixture of both air burst and ground burst.
If you are in a rural location and away from military centres, centres of manufacturing, dams, or centres of strategic importance then you are much less likely to be affected by heat and blast. The rest of us will need to think much more about the immediate effects of fire, blast damage and gamma radiation. We will all need to think about the effects of fallout radiation and the short term and long term future.