Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years on: What would happen if London suffered a nuclear strike today?

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Entire city would be wiped out in seconds, experts say

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DJSiri Much more likely for Glasgow but hey....we are just dispensable jocks 😡😡😡

Still never worked out why America was never tried for crimes against humanity over the two bombings

If it landed in Brixton you’d hardly notice.

It would cause £50bn of improvements.

WW3 probably

Odd article

Hopefully we’d retaliate with our own nukes, thus continuing MAD

Crazy U.K. is United kingdom of great Britain and communism in whole globe is gonna convince them that every girl is not letting me to message american rich ladies

House prices would sky rocket as developers moved in to build the promised new slums?

Soviet ambassador in the 1960s states the USSR could destroy the U.K. with 4 H-Bombs. That was over 50 years ago and things haven’t got better since.

Cast your mind back to 1945. The war in Europe is over. The whole weight of the allied forces is now focused on Japan. Not only US but European troops are enroute for the invasion. Japanese society is ready to die, invading troops expect 1M casualties. What's you're decision?

They got it big.

Where would we have the new capital?

It would get very hot very quickly. Also the stabbing epidemic would instantly stop.

🙏🙏🙏🙏

Well, it would certainly clean the place up a bit....

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