{"id":10922,"date":"2024-05-20T22:18:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T22:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=10922"},"modified":"2024-05-20T22:18:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T22:18:43","slug":"10922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2024\/05\/20\/10922\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:1696,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.juliemcdowall.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260204000642\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.juliemcdowall.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-06 11:35:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-12 00:46:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-15 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How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War<\/a><\/em> by Julie McDowall. A forensic look at the approach this country took as we navigated the Cold War. This largely involved pretending that World War II-style preparations were adequate, denying the realities to the public until a sufficient consensus emerged among that same public that nuclear war was not survivable. It\u2019s interesting how much the films <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0059894\/\" title=\"IMDB: The War Game (1966)\">The War Game<\/a><\/em> (1966) and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0090163\/\" title=\"IMDB: Threads (1984)\">Threads<\/a><\/em> (1984) played a part in showing people the stark realities. I too saw <em>Threads<\/em> as a child and it had a profound effect on me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"787\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Image-20-05-2024-23-06.png\" class=\"wp-image-10921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Image-20-05-2024-23-06.png 1400w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Image-20-05-2024-23-06-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Image-20-05-2024-23-06-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Image-20-05-2024-23-06-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Image-20-05-2024-23-06-700x394.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2024\/05\/20\/10922\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to \"><div class='e-content p-summary'>\ud83d\udcda Finished reading Attack Warning Red! How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall. A forensic look at the approach this country took as we navigated the Cold War. This largely involved pretending that World War II-style preparations were adequate, denying the realities to the public until a sufficient consensus emerged among that same [&hellip;]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-snippets","7":"post_format-post-format-status","8":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/05\/02\/threads-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":10922,"position":0},"title":"Threads again","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"2 May 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I finally got around to watching my Threads DVD last night. 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