Nuclear apocalypse in Britain
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The Importance of Popular Culture in the Cold War
"I've never seen anything in the archives which where the government said bluntly, we will allow the sick or the week to die," he says. "If that had leaked out, then of course, you know, all hell would have broken this." But popular culture kind of takes over because if we go back to the film Threads, I mentioned at the beginning, that almost takes that subject and runs with it".
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