jpatokal
21-02-07, 09:22 AM
Fascinating story in the Guardian (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicspast/story/0,,2006099,00.html):
So this is where world war three would have been waged. And this is the tub in which, in between ordering retaliatory nuclear strikes, the prime minister would have taken a bath. There is his toilet, and here, in the dead centre of a 34-acre underground bunker in Wiltshire, is the reinforced chamber in which preparations for nuclear winter would have been made. As you stand in the torchlit cold, with the doorframes collapsing from dry rot and with water dripping down incipient stalactites, the room seems to fill with the voices of Harold Macmillan, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher, and you find yourself shivering. But not from the chill. ...
And the seriously creepy "Protect and Survive" videos mentioned in the story can be found on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=protect+survive&search=Search). A few examples:
Protect and Survive: Casualties (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmNrsqE9wVE)
Protect and Survive: Nuclear Explosions Explained (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG3Kb12s16A)
So this is where world war three would have been waged. And this is the tub in which, in between ordering retaliatory nuclear strikes, the prime minister would have taken a bath. There is his toilet, and here, in the dead centre of a 34-acre underground bunker in Wiltshire, is the reinforced chamber in which preparations for nuclear winter would have been made. As you stand in the torchlit cold, with the doorframes collapsing from dry rot and with water dripping down incipient stalactites, the room seems to fill with the voices of Harold Macmillan, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher, and you find yourself shivering. But not from the chill. ...
And the seriously creepy "Protect and Survive" videos mentioned in the story can be found on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=protect+survive&search=Search). A few examples:
Protect and Survive: Casualties (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmNrsqE9wVE)
Protect and Survive: Nuclear Explosions Explained (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG3Kb12s16A)