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[TheBoy]

Can someone please do the A5. Even with craters and fallout, my commute would be easier if all the retards were taken out...

[tigers_gonads]

I was once asked while in germany what I would do if I knew nuclear attack was imminent.

Apparently, sh*gging the wing comanders daughter then trying to catch the bugger was not the answer he was looking for 

Cost me 4 weekends playing gateguard that did 

[Rods2]

That's Call of Duty Black Ops off Lizzie's Christmas list then.   

[TheBoy]

I remember a while ago (before the Berlin Wall fell) working on the phone in a pub (ironically about 2m from Chequers), they had the village's WB1400 (early warning system), and the tinker started clicking.

Kacked my pants good and proper, esp with Strike Command about 6m away.

Fortunately, it was due to the exchange side equipment having a spaz.

[tigers_gonads]

Remember sat at donny train station as a 17 year old in uniform.
I'd only been in the mob a few weeks
Sirens went off.
Must admit, my backside went 5 pence / 50 pence a few times until I reliesed that it was just a test 

[VXL V6]

I remember a while ago (before the Berlin Wall fell) working on the phone in a pub (ironically about 2m from Chequers), they had the village's WB1400 (early warning system), and the tinker started clicking.

Kacked my pants good and proper, esp with Strike Command about 6m away.

Fortunately, it was due to the exchange side equipment having a spaz.

They were always meant to tick (confidence tone), it's when they warbled and announced 'Attack Warning Red' it was time to worry!
Always cracked me up that the Exchange equipment was in EMP protected cabinets, yet the cables that ran across the trays from the equipment weren't shielded or protected in any way... Also laughable now that the system nodes were connected by standard GPO cables strung from pole to pole, I think that maybe / possibly they may have been flattened (amoungst other things) with the blast! Mind you, I don't think anyone would be to worried about the post strike fallout messages.

[TheBoy]

I remember a while ago (before the Berlin Wall fell) working on the phone in a pub (ironically about 2m from Chequers), they had the village's WB1400 (early warning system), and the tinker started clicking.

Kacked my pants good and proper, esp with Strike Command about 6m away.

Fortunately, it was due to the exchange side equipment having a spaz.

They were always meant to tick (confidence tone), it's when they warbled and announced 'Attack Warning Red' it was time to worry!
Always cracked me up that the Exchange equipment was in EMP protected cabinets, yet the cables that ran across the trays from the equipment weren't shielded or protected in any way... Also laughable now that the system nodes were connected by standard GPO cables strung from pole to pole, I think that maybe / possibly they may have been flattened (amoungst other things) with the blast! Mind you, I don't think anyone would be to worried about the post strike fallout messages.

Yeah, it wasn't the background tick, it was a loud electronic click. Not heard one go off before then.  Though it wasn't the post announcement beep either.

Exchange TO said something had gone on the shelf in the exchange, and "a man" was on his way.

[VXL V6]

That Carrier Receiver electronic 'Warble' and the electronic jingle on the Protect and Survive Public Information Films still put a shiver down my spine to this day.

At least now we have no public warning system so the first we'll know about it is when things get slightly hotter than a visit to Birmingham's 'Curry Mile'

[cem_devecioglu]

I was once asked while in germany what I would do if I knew nuclear attack was imminent.

Apparently, sh*gging the wing comanders daughter then trying to catch the bugger was not the answer he was looking for 

Cost me 4 weekends playing gateguard that did 

 

[Kate]

Can anyone remember that BBC series 'Threads'?

I really enjoyed it. It's available on the web.

[VXL V6]

Can anyone remember that BBC series 'Threads'?

I really enjoyed it. It's available on the web.

It was a Docudrama. About as accurate as it gets IMHO, although the special effects are very 80's (well I suppose they would be as it was released in 1984). One of BBC's few productions where the scenario just gets worse and worse with relentless realism. The War Game, it's predecessor, was deemed to have been too chilling to air on TV as the effects on the viewing public could have been damaging.



 

[BazaJT]

A long time ago saw a film/play/drama set if I remember rightly in Sheffield about a nuclear attack[I forget what it was called]but it scared me silly and I determined there and then that given the "4 minute"warning I would use that time to get as close as I could to the nearest most likely detonation point,as I wouldn't want to see the aftermath of a nuclear war.

[VXL V6]

A long time ago saw a film/play/drama set if I remember rightly in Sheffield about a nuclear attack[I forget what it was called]but it scared me silly and I determined there and then that given the "4 minute"warning I would use that time to get as close as I could to the nearest most likely detonation point,as I wouldn't want to see the aftermath of a nuclear war.

Threads   

[tigers_gonads]

Can anyone remember that BBC series 'Threads'?

I really enjoyed it. It's available on the web.

Watched it a few weeks ago when I was bored.

Remember my boss at the time telling us it was all CND propaganda 

Yeh, right 

[Vamps]

Can anyone remember that BBC series 'Threads'?

I really enjoyed it. It's available on the web.

Was that not a film? sure I have it on tape somewhere, starts with a young couple decorating their new flat; there was also an American? film made which was less realistic but none the less chilling......I want to be under one if the time comes............