Nuclear apocalypse in Britain
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The War on Nuclear Weapons
Britain has what were named the golf balls on filing deals moor, which was an early warning radar for incoming Soviet missiles. If we had detected an incoming attack, it would have been first detected at filing deals or its sister and radar,. They would have cascaded the warning down through the chain of command. It would have gone out to other NATO allies, and it would have gone down to, for example, the BBC - they would have used TV and radio to alert the population. Local police stations also had a device called a carrier control point. And he would have used that to flick some switches and set off the electric sirens. He would also have used his bank of telephones
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