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Graeme Wall wrote:

You are making the mistake of talking about the present day, the policy was
in place throughout the 50s 60s and 70s. And they weren't planning on
stopping the whole population of London, they were talking about the weak,
radiation sick survivors of one or more multi-megaton blasts over the London
area.

I still think it was an un-workable idea in practice for the reason I
gave - even if under Martial Law a shoot to kill policy was introduced
(how would they excuse it to the rest of the country: "putting all these
poor people out of their misery ?) and even if people were a lot more
compliant to authority back then.

But as uk.rec.subt knows, most of the official policies to deal with
the civilian population during and after nuclear war would have been
useless if it had actually come to pass.

Nick
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