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• nanuq commented on Britain's secret plan for surviving a nuclear war
  "I'm damned if I can find a copy on the web, or on the National Archives' site. " Don't be silly. Of course it's available. They even made a movie about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoops_Apocalypse...
• pidg commented on Britain's secret plan for surviving a nuclear war
  This is really interesting, since it's related to my field of academic research (the design/politics/psychology of government public information schemes in the face of the threat of catastrophic attack). I was going down to the National Archives later this year anyway to look at other documents - if I can get my hands on the War Book I will be sure to update all y'allz!...
• Halloween Jack commented on Britain's secret plan for surviving a nuclear war
  So when does the dude in the Guy Fawkes mask show up?...
• mpb commented on Britain's secret plan for surviving a nuclear war
  Pres Reagan (out of Nixon via Cheney Rumsfeld, et al on towards Bush II and VP-Palin) pressured many communities to plan for nuclear war and to adopt evacuation plans (Star Wars and the Peace Shield would protect us. Now we have the new star wars shield based in Alaska). Fortunately, there were smart citizens who could ask basic questions (how big is 10 square feet per person? Where in Santa Fe would the much larger population of Albuquerque stay? ) what-me-worry-we-have-plan When examined, as if they were "real", these plans are ludicrous and communities usually switch to more practical steps,...
• human remains commented on Britain's secret plan for surviving a nuclear war
  I remember flipping through a book in my local library in Leeds when I was a kid. It seemed to be a declassified UK government plan on post-nuclear attack contingencies, although I could never find it later when I went back. It said something about using police stations to grow cannabis because it would be the quickest way to get pain relief to the local population in the absence of working hospitals etc. Anyone have any idea what that book was?...