Far from hiding, if a missile was coming over here I'd get the family into the car and hot-foot it twards ground zero (probably the nearby power station). I wouldn't want to live in the post holocaust nuclear winter, with rad. sickness, slow death.

Funny, at the end of the 80s I though we would all be spared that fear from then on.

Stop buying Chinese cheap clothes, toys, electronics, $ shop cra*p, etc. etc., you guys! Sanction them back into the stone age before they bust or blow us back into it.

>We never had a bomb shelter in the back yard when I was growing up but I did go through "duck and cover" drills at school. As though our desks would have shielded us.
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>>Yah know, we might just have to go back to archaic technology to defend ourselves like, SAGE, Pine Tree, and BMEWS. They were not dependant upon satellites – just plain radar systems. With BMEWS we could see a Piper Cub (or the Russian equivalent) take off from the airport in Moscow! We would plot in three dimensions (via computer) and determine an intercept point for our fighters, should that be necessary.
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>>We are so dependant upon satellites for our defense. Too many thoughts and experiences to even consider putting into a post.
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>>I think that we will get back to a 1950's mentality - have a bomb shelter in your backyard! Not many people actually did that but it did make the news in its various forms.
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>>>Don't worry. Even though this has been all over the news this morning (fears of a space war), I have seen so many posts on this forum by people insisting that the Chinese are NOT A THREAT and HAVE NO SERIOUS MILITARY CAPABILTY. I'm sure they know what they are writing about and the news about the Chinese destroying a satellite is simply a fabrication :o)
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>>>>I see the Chinese have succesfully destroyed a satellite in orbit with a missile. I wonder why they are developing that capability.
>>>>Could this be the start of a new space arms race.
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>>>>Nick