# Nuclear War scare: what would be your "get out of town" threshold? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 24, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-war-scare-what-would-be-your-get-out-of-town-threshold/1006162 "2024-08-24T22:57:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 133
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-war-scare-what-would-be-your-get-out-of-town-threshold/1006162/133 "2024-08-29T07:19:30Z")
I’ve answered this before and made a thread about it. > [@Incoming missiles!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incoming-missiles/982599): > > North Korea apparently launched a ballistic missile which should (by now) have come down somewhere around Hokkaido, where I live. The kids had just left for school, I was getting some coffee and wondering if I should prepare for classes or read the Dope and I get an alert on my phone to take shelter immediately, followed by phone calls from my wife, who is in Tokyo now, and other parents. My son was walking to school with a friend, and his mother went and got them and brought them back, but … So, of course it wasn’t a nuclear missile, and we weren’t blow up, but what I did do during the time period before I found out that we weren’t dead: - Drank some coffee - Posted on the Dope - Talked to my friends As I live in a small town in Japan, nowhere close to any major targets, I presume things won’t be headed my way. We are a fishing village so there should be some protein available. I do keep enough coffee on hand although if Armageddon occurs, I presume the Dope won’t survive. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuclear-war-scare-what-would-be-your-get-out-of-town-threshold/1006162)._