Radio 4 last night

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/fseue/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7751912.stm

 

[Links to BBC documentary about the command chain for nuclear retaliation.]

Forgive me if you've seen it already but there's a lot of cold war stuff on
http://uk.youtube.com/profile?user=Pandemian&view=videos
'Sound an Alarm' for instance starts slowly but is (I think ) fascinating.
Roger T

 

Oh, I've been down there. Fascinating place where they still had stocks
of stationery and shelves full of the old, black GPO telephones.

 

For small values of nuke.

Any self respecting attack on Bradford would be a 25Mt ground burst.
Public service, innit.