I always remember the cover of The Radio Times
it had the copper with a dirty/bloody cloth mask in front of a gated crowd.
Then I watched the film, Oh dear God. If we weren't already petrified by the prospect of a nuclear war then, well, we were now!
I also remember the public information films that they used to show every now and again.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 9:49, 1 reply)

Protect and Survive
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXx5Y2Fr2bk
A cheerful series made by the same people who did Charley says!
Janet don't watch this, it might cause flashbacks.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 10:37, closed)

hey, kids! nuclear war looming?
simply place a door against a wall, fill your bath with water and wait for the sun to come out again!
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 11:18, closed)

They used to tell us in army
that if you see the flash from a nuclear weapon then you must lie down. Sound words, I thought.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 15:20, closed)

aren't you supposed to get in a ditch if there's a ditch?
i can certainly see how THAT would help.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 15:40, closed)

Their reasoning was that on seeing the fireball
you didn't have time to dig, or anything else for that matter, so it's best to lie down to reduce the blast.
I think it was more:- there's a nuclear explosion, everyone's fucked, might as well have a lie down. Sex anyone?
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 15:58, closed)

I don't think anyone would want to
being as we would have all shit ourselves.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 17:56, closed)

Still gives me the jeebers.
And the sirens... don't get me started.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Fri 15 Jun 2012, 15:21, closed)