The document 'war games' what would happened nationally and internationallyIn the event of nuclear war people would be advised to stockpile non perishable goodsAs the international mood darkens, riots break out in British cities. ‘We’ve got to have the bloody Union Jack on top of it.’Britain did get its own bomb in 1952, but fears of Soviet nuclear attack ran very high. Yet the remorseless logic of the Cold War meant that people genuinely had to think about such issues. And in today’s fractious world, where politics seems to be spiralling towards the extremes, the shadow of the Cold War looms rather too large for comfort. Indeed, since the financial crisis, Left-wing extremism has been reinvigorated, with today’s Labour Party, once a bulwark of our Cold War consensus, having been taken over by Marxist zealots.

Source: Daily Mail April 03, 2019 21:01 UTC