Truly terrifying...

[blue_condition]

...is the verdict on Bob Clarke's Four Minute Warning. Clarke is ex-RAF turned engineer turned archaeologist, and in this book he turns his attention to a description of both the UK's nuclear arsenal and the supporting military infrastructure throughout the Cold War, and then to the civil defence and other mechanisms that would attempt to put

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[mr_tom]

[andrewducker]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[kissmeforlonger]

I'm not sure I'd want to be around to die a death like that.

[duoinchains]

And if one day the final fire explodes across the whitened sky
I know you've said you'd rather die and make it over fast
With courage from your bravest friends, waiting outside for the end
With no bitterness but an innocence that I can't seem to grasp
I know somehow I will survive - this fury just to stay alive
So drunk with sickness, weak with pain, I can walk the hills one last time
Scarred and smiling, dying slow, I'll scream to no one left at all
I told you so, I told you so, I told you so . .
Oh God I love the world

[blue_condition]

When the rich die last
Like the rabbits
Running from a lucky past
Full of shadow cunning
And the world lights up
For the final day
We will all be poor
Having had our say

Put a blanket up on the window pane
When the baby cries lullaby again
As the light goes out on the final day
For the people who never had a say

There is so much noise
There is too much heat
And the living floor
throws you off your feet
As the final day falls into the night
There is peace outside
in the narrow light