‘This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service. This country has been attacked with nuclear weapons. Communications have been severely disrupted, and the number of casualties and the extent of the damage are not yet known. We shall bring you further information as soon as possible.’
If the Cold War had gone nuclear, this is the chilling warning former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher would have broadcast to the nation. She would have given the radio address not from No 10 Downing Street, but from a secret hideout 100ft beneath the Essex countryside.
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