https://www.gov.uk/government/news/launch-of-life-saving-public-emergency-alerts
I hope this is something we can opt out of. It's making me angry / anxiety rise (I can't tell which) that we have to be subjected to this. It's another way to keep us frightened.
Given what I’ve seen when I was last back home in Ireland where I have extended family in Rural Ireland, they are more likely to target Ireland and the Irish government are totally useless when it comes to things like this - it was only in August 2022 that I saw the Irish Navy on some sort of training at the entrance to Dublin Bay when my ferry was coming in from Holyhead
They are more likely to target Ireland than the U.K. anyway, given what I’ve seen on my last visit home in October 2022 - the Irish government is far worse than the U.K. when it comes to this
There is a setting on your phone to disable these alerts if you prefer. I’ll post a screenshot below.
I was quite happy with this to start with as I’ll know when the test is and can be prepared for it. I also like to know what’s happening in case I can take some sort of action. I accept that there’s not much I can do in the event of a nuclear strike though!
Now, however, I’m not so sure as if I think too much about it then it will be in the back of my mind that it could go off at any time. I’ll have to just try to forget about it.
i generally think most politicians go into politics for the right reasons but the recently released lockdown files show that the way they treat the electorate is appalling sometimes with those who asked about unintended consequences of all that manufactured or at least enhanced fear ignored and silenced.
Now with more info! Blame the Fallout universe for sending me down a rabbit hole into actual nuclear warfare, and warfare in general years ago.... it's become something of a special interest too.
I’m not aware that we are any more at risk of war/attack than in recent times and certainly less so now than during the Cold War. Having lived through those times in permanent terror of nuclear anniialation (sp?) I feel way much safer. I lived close to Soviet first strike targets too so actually took comfort in the fact that I’d likely be incinerated rather than suffering the drawn out deaths portrayed in Sheffield in the movie Threads.
The point made about electronic attack is well made, an enemy could easily collapse a country by such a high altitude attack which wouldn’t risk fall out drifting back to them.
@ OP: They have been waging psychological warfare on the public for years, people who are scared are easy to control.
@ OP & Neil
Also I wouldn't trust a text alert to get to me in time to warn me about an atomic bomb anyway, the signal in the UK is tripe, easier just to rely on the old duck and cover and hope you are far enough away from the epicenter for all the help this governemet will be in helping protect us, especially because if a nuclear device were set off in the atmosphere everything tech underneath it without strong EMP shielding will go dark, your phones, computers, and even some peopl'es cars will just stop working. Arguably potentially all cars, but the battery in the car itself is theoretcally tougher and can survive weaker EMP pulses better than microchips.
But really any enemy likely to bomb the UK are more likely to wage that tech warfare rather than use such a device to cause death of civilians because it's not like the government would give a monkeys if taxpayers died anyway, as long as the champane in their own bunkers doesn't run out. Also killing people who could otherwise work for you in a take-over would be a shot in their own foot.
So in a round-about kind of way it's not worth worrying about it. Just don't buy any new cars that rely on a computer to tell them it's okay to start the engine, and be prepared to evacuate to a remote rural location of 0 millitary interest if you ever have to cross that bridge.
I always just prepare for the worst and then put it out of my mind until it does, "it might never happen" anyway but in the mean time the stress will certainly kill you if you let it.
I think it is in case of wild fires or floods.
I hope they will be more specific than early evening though, as we could be on high alert for a long time waiting. As it is a practise I see no point being vague about the time.
That's what it sounds like, keeping everyone scared. I wouldn't want to be in the UK right now.
On the first day of the month every Monday, there is 'catastrophe protection' alarm practice at a pharmaceutical near where I live. The siren sounds exactly like what you would expect if a nuke was coming our way. In September they have extra practice and the siren is tried out three times, three times as long.
What kind of catastrophe would a pharmaceutical be expecting, I wonder.
I think we are being prepared for a war, unlike most of Eastern European countries we don’t have bomb shelters and air raid sirens.
they will need to inform us to take cover at some point. And this has got to be the easiest way to contact everybody quickly.
