Heard this on R4 this morning. Would be a facinating, if disturbing, read.
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Planning for Armageddon
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I would have thought that rehearsing the end of the world would be a waste of tax payers money.....
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Evidently not - it was part of the deterrent. The Soviets knew we were serious because we were rehearsing it.Originally posted by pzz76077 View PostI would have thought that rehearsing the end of the world would be a waste of tax payers money.....
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Not in the event of nuclear war, but I can think of a few who should be chucked in there and have the door locked behind themOriginally posted by Doggy Styles View PostIs there anyone on the CUK boards who should be included in the bunker?
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I dont think I would want to be in the bunker. Anyone capable of doing anything would be outside and dead so those who survived would be on a hiding to nothing.Originally posted by Doggy Styles View PostIs there anyone on the CUK boards who should be included in the bunker?
There is no point saving the great and the good to create a new world order. They would be better off saving farmers and mechanical engineers.I am not qualified to give the above advice!
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Eeeek!
We're doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomed!
In what little seriousness I can muster in the circumstances, however, we'd have been utterly, utterly fcuked. I'd have been interested in learning what the plans were for the psychiatric care of the survivors who despite no physical injuries would almost certainly be of much greater risk of
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Easy to say now, but when that siren goes and some government official says to you "Quick, you've got to get down the bunker now", I wonder what your decision would be then?Originally posted by The Lone Gunman View PostI dont think I would want to be in the bunker. Anyone capable of doing anything would be outside and dead so those who survived would be on a hiding to nothing.
There is no point saving the great and the good to create a new world order. They would be better off saving farmers and mechanical engineers.Comment
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Many years ago and in another life I did "have a place in (one of the) bunkers"..........Originally posted by The Lone Gunman View PostI dont think I would want to be in the bunker. Anyone capable of doing anything would be outside and dead so those who survived would be on a hiding to nothing.
There is no point saving the great and the good to create a new world order. They would be better off saving farmers and mechanical engineers.
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We'd have been fecked full stop. No matter what anyone says about planning for survival we'd have been fecked. There would have been no care of any kind for the survivors. End of the world as we know it.Originally posted by Menelaus View PostWe're doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomed!
In what little seriousness I can muster in the circumstances, however, we'd have been utterly, utterly fcuked. I'd have been interested in learning what the plans were for the psychiatric care of the survivors who despite no physical injuries would almost certainly be of much greater risk of
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