Didcot power station on the horizon about 3/4 to the right is about 10 miles from Ipsden here. If a 1 megaton bomb were dropped there and you faced the fireball you'd get third degree burns on a clear day. Hide behind the car and you'd be totally safe. Neutrons would not get anywhere near that far, nor would the blast. Just wait for the shock wave to arrive in 50 seconds. Sure, if the wind was a westerly, you'd be in trouble within a few hours from fallout if there were no decent shelter a few feet thick.
A Dialogue on the UK's Accession to the United States Executive Summary This initiative seeks to foster a formal dialogue regarding the potential accession of the countries of the United Kingdom , to the United States , as individual states. Being English the main focus is for the country of England to accede. The original intent was to ask the government to lead on it through a petition leading to the question coming before the House of Commons. This was crushed out of hand by the committee leading petitions, which was not a surprise. Simply put, this petition is asking the government to start a conversation about the benefits of leaving the UK and joining the United States. Let us call the initiative UKEXIT (yukezit) The objective is to evaluate the benefits to citizens and stakeholders, encouraging a constructive discourse on the political, economic, and social implications of such a union. If Wales , Northern Ireland , Scotland , or England were to leave the Unit...