My missus told me about this and we got to thinking......would we all get a text or something? Would all the telecomms providers send one out? What would it say?
“No point running and hiding, you are going to die. Have a nice day. Vodaphone”
If need be yes, it would be either a CBS (Cell Broadcast) or a Location Flash SMS, either of these would come up on your Screen straight away and dont rely on you going to your inbox to read the Massage. It wouldn't be down to the Networks to send this out as various Gov Depts have a Gateway into the Networks as part of their Public Emergency Alerts Program.
But again, by the time most would see these messages we would all be dead. 
I repeat, as during the Cold War, when nuclear weapons were not as powerful as now, we knew we would not survive, and we said between ourselves that it would be better to be killed quickly in the first strike than linger on for a very slow and painful death. The public service films on what to do if the day came where just 'dangle berries', and eventually admitted to be so.
Now, let us hope it never happens, but if it does, forget any warnings, just die quick without knowing what happened! 
Sorry Lizzie but that's a load of crap 
In the good old early days of the cold war, the nukes was larger due to the inaccuracy of the delivery systems.
A warhead was made with a high yield because the CEP was measured in hundreds of meters.
Nowadays, these things can be popped through letter box if needed hence the much smaller yield weapons available today 
Now were is my old "Survive to fight" manual 
No, not at all.
Can you be assured that Putin, who is known to have developed nuclear weapons with a far wider destructive affect when denoting and is the leader of the country who built the (then) World's biggest bomb, the Tzar, does not possess weapons far more powerful than in the Cold War? Are you certain that Iran and North Korea haven't developed their nuclear weapons to a level that will be far more destructive than ever known before? The Cold War did end almost 30 years ago so there has been much time for development in the destructive capacity of nukes. After all, what power throughout World history has ever limited the force of their weaponry? It just does not happen!
The answer is "no", as no international inspections of any worth have been carried out in these countries; Putin for example will block every attempt for outsiders to see their new range of nuclear weapons. We are in, once again, a World of tremendous uncertainty. We are in a situation where a number of countries could combine their forces, unlike during the Cold War when we knew it would 'just' be between the CCCP and the USA. Then at least we knew we were dealing with leaders who, eventually, recognised MAD. Can the same be said of the current fanatical World leaders?
There are no guarantees now that someone won't push 'that' button and send the most powerful nuclear weapons into us.
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