The famous "golf balls" on the moor at Fylingdales, and how they would have delivered the four-minute warning

Fylingdales and the Four-Minute Warning

Another short extract from the book about the health service's plans for nuclear war.

The NHS and Nuclear War

A short extract from my upcoming book. I explore an ROC Monitoring Post and describe the work of the Corps during the Blitz and the Cold War.

Royal Observer Corps

I spoke to the wonderful Rita May about her memories of THREADS.

Interview with Rita May (Mrs Kemp in THREADS) 

I read two pages from the Civil Defence Corps chapter of my book.

Short extract from the book...

Cauliflower and Plym: not a cocktail, but two unusual elements of Britain's first atomic test, Operation Hurricane.

Cauliflower and Plym: Britain's First Atomic Bomb

Looking at proposals for jobs for adolescents after nuclear attack.

A Saturday Job After Nuclear War

The 1982 booklet 'Target North West' evaluated civil defence plans for the NW of England. We look at the chapter on Law and Order.

Target North West

I phoned Mick Jackson in LA to discuss THREADS. We also talked about A Guide To Armageddon, and The Day After, plus liquorice and all manner of nuclear horror.

Atomic Hobo

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