Same here, not that I'd particularly have liked to survive it anyway. Give me quick immolation any day over a lingering (or not) radation sickness death, or trying to find food, water and shelter.
Birmingham was used as a target by the Sovs in the Third World War book by General Sir John Hackett with some detail. Seeing as we have a major rail hub, a major motorway intersection, an airport and in the 80s still some arms manufacturing plus an army base, we were toast. But then most of England would have been radioactive slag in a major exchange. The Ruskies might not have been able to sink us, but we could be scoured clean.