{"id":2752,"date":"2026-01-19T22:25:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=2752"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:25:21","slug":"towns-to-avoid-living-in-for-ww3-according-to-a-nuclear-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=2752","title":{"rendered":"Towns to avoid living in for WW3, according to a nuclear expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-big-warning-if-you-live-in-one-of-these-three-areas\">A big warning if you live in one of these three areas<\/h2>\n<p>There are three places in the UK that should be avoided in case World War III breaks out, a former US Air Force nuclear protection specialist has warned.<\/p>\n<p>National security expert Gene Sticco has revealed for Mirror that there are three UK towns you should avoid in the event of a third World War.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>His words of warning come at a time of atomic warnings by Russia, as tensions between the Russian Federation and the West appear to be escalating.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Russian Major General of Aviation, Vladimir Popov, this week responded to NATO\u2019s plans to strike Russia in a \u201cmore aggressive way\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And such plans could lead to \u201cfull-scale nuclear war\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>But what three towns in the UK should you avoid if that does indeed happen and bombs start dropping?<\/p>\n<p>When asked to name the city or town in the UK in which an enemy would likely launch an attack, national security expert Gene Sticco warned that \u201canywhere near the US and NATO facilities, otherwise the key military centres: <strong>Telford<\/strong>, <strong>Plymouth<\/strong>, South Yorkshire and the Southeast and Southwest of England\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He argues that naval centres are the places which are the strength and lifeline of the UK, including <strong>Barrow-in-Furness<\/strong> in Cumbria.<\/p>\n<p>The latest warning comes as Alexander Grushko, Russia\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister, claimed that Europe is \u201cactively preparing\u201d for war and issued a WW3 warning, just days after the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, said that the rumours of a conflict with Europe are \u201coutright lies and nonsense\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Bottom ad unit --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Custom pseudo content\/category -->\n            <\/div>\n<p>#Towns #avoid #living #WW3 #nuclear #expert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big warning if you live in one of these three areas There are three places in the UK that should be avoided in case World War III breaks out, a former US Air Force nuclear protection specialist has warned. National security expert Gene Sticco has revealed for Mirror that there are three UK towns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1580,1774,2021,1183,781,311,2023,1633,2022,1579],"class_list":{"0":"post-2752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-avoid","9":"tag-expert","10":"tag-gene-sticco","11":"tag-living","12":"tag-nuclear","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-towns","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-world-war-iii","17":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}