surreptitious57 wrote:There was a government information booklet called Protect And Survive delivered to every home
There was also The War Game which was subsequently banned as it was considered too dangerous
But there were special screenings of it by CND and I went to one of them and it was just ridiculous
Taking shelter under a mattress under the stairs is not remotely effective against radiation exposure

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laklak wrote:We detonated a hydrogen bomb every day for 12 years? That's a lot of hydrogen bombs.

JustStarDust is not the sharpest knife in the kitchen drawer. Pilger equated the total output of US atomic bomb tests as the equivalent of exploding one Hiroshima sized bomb every day for 12 years. In comparison the USSR's Tsar bomba was equivalent to 1200 days' worth of that.

Fallible wrote:Deliberately said the wrong thing. Lol.