#48 FRIDAY PHOTOWALK: NUCLEAR WALK!
Close to my home lies one thousand hectares of 'free to roam' common land, covered by heath, perfect for nesting birds, a safe haven for grazing cattle, visited every day by joggers and walkers. But once and not so long ago, it was an airbase. Ninety six nuclear war war heads aimed east were hidden in blast proof shelters and silos, watched over behind razor wiring by the dedicated women who formed one of the most famous cold war era peace movements and camps. Oh and there is a mystery of the 'nuclear disaster' that, well, 'never happened.'
At the start of the episode and as an indication of the reality nuclear war posed in the minds of politicians and the people, part of an educational video you might have heard in the UK if, as was feared during the cold war era, tempers were properly frayed and the nuclear missiles were exchanged by warring parties.
An element of the video included tuition in constructing a makeshift nuclear shelter from upturned mattresses and proposed living on cartons of UHT everything for the foreseeable. There was even a suggestion of stockpiling for the event, toilet rolls being one of those items. How realities clash?
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