more “Protect and Survive” Culture

See [www.cybertrn.demon.co.uk] for a compendious index, and also [www.aslan.demon.co.uk] wherein is this extract:

I am glad to see that Armageddon is coming back into fashion. Nuclear holocausts were a tremendously important part of my childhood. I can’t imagine how we’ve managed without them for so long.

What must it be like to grow up without ever crawling out of your inner sanctum (constructed by piling sandbags around the dining room table) into the wreckage of your home; burying your parents in the garden; walking through the deserted rubble to Sainsburies to see if the looters have left even a tin of baked beans; realising that, on the plus side, school has probably been cancelled, but, on the minus, there probably won’t be any more issues of Spiderman; feeling your hair falling out in handfuls and realising that, even though you obeyed Protect and Survive to the letter, you have somehow contracted radiation sickness and are about to die a slow and lingering death–before waking up, realising that it was only a dream, but knowing that, one of these days, it will not be? What do today’s children use as raw material for their nightmares? Failing their accountancy exams?

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