Nuclear attack? Wear stout shoes
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An interesting look at how the UK prepared for the possibility of Nuclear Attack in the 1960s[^]
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
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An interesting look at how the UK prepared for the possibility of Nuclear Attack in the 1960s[^]
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
"Striking a reassuring tone, the guidance talks of storing enough tinned food for a fortnight. And this eerie image of post-nuclear normality is continued with a picture of a man in a cardigan cradling a cat - and the message "Do not forget your pets." " :~
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
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"Striking a reassuring tone, the guidance talks of storing enough tinned food for a fortnight. And this eerie image of post-nuclear normality is continued with a picture of a man in a cardigan cradling a cat - and the message "Do not forget your pets." " :~
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
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An interesting look at how the UK prepared for the possibility of Nuclear Attack in the 1960s[^]
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Here's an archive of ariginal doucments: http://www.cybertrn.demon.co.uk/atomic/[^]. Wouldn't want any messy rioting or panicing before everything south of the hebrides was turned into glass. Ryan
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An interesting look at how the UK prepared for the possibility of Nuclear Attack in the 1960s[^]
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Interesting article. On a related note I recently managed to get a DVD copy of the BBC docudrama "Threads" (1984). Still a powerful, depressing and very frightening drama 20 years later. For thos that have never seen it, Threads was about a nuclear attack on the UK after WWIII kicks off in the Middle East (after the USSR invades Iran to sieze the oil-fields and the US intervenes). The story is centred on Sheffield (because it's more less in the centre of the British Isles) and starts with the crisis unfolding in background news reports and finishes some 13 years after the war. Pretty gruesome stuff in places.
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An interesting look at how the UK prepared for the possibility of Nuclear Attack in the 1960s[^]
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Colin Angus Mackay wrote: how the UK prepared /cut/ in the 1960s[^] Well, I still remember just marching out of the class room into central halls in the school and learning how to duck into a small ball for 15 minutes. Never did address getting out of the hall or seeing our parents again. None of us thought of that though, as we were so uncomfortable as nothing else mattered durning the practices. But it did really make you distrust those REDS.
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An interesting look at how the UK prepared for the possibility of Nuclear Attack in the 1960s[^]
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
As a member of a reconnisance regiment in the '80s, our life expectancy was about half an hour anyway. We just made out wills.:sigh: "For all of our languages, we cannot communicate" - Christy Moore, Natives