The nuclear attack on the UK that never happened

In 1982, a secret Home Office exercise tested the UK's capacity to rebuild after a massive nuclear attack. Files recently released at the National Archives detail one short-lived proposal to recruit psychopaths to help keep order.

30 October 2014

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Today—30/10/2014

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