You when as a collecter or a seller you haver found sometink that just says ha this is something Hmmmmmmmm Well thats how I feel about this I have it on ebay right now and I just get this feeling thats is just what a collecter of Cold War History Is looking for.
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Along with the one in five leflets Improvised Methods of Lessening Fire Risk. The Survival guild is in mint condition It tells us the survival areas to the indications of danger and the immediate danger from the heat. It seems that was part of the Staff training and as part of Five Talks they where to have on Nuclear warThere is also the envlope which holds the leflets and as you can see from the picture as the W V S CIVIL DEFFNCE stamp on it a collecters item in itself and is in good condition. Overall its a good find hear as you don’t see many in this kind of condition In fact I could not find any on Ebay at all.(The reail thing about all this and the govermnat spending lots of money on telling us we could all Survive
a nucler war was we all knew that if a Nucler war came all that was left to do in the 3 mins you had left was to bend over and kiss your Axxxxx Good buy.)
The history of the Cold War Two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, were in a nuclear arms face-off in a deadly game of brinkmanship. In 1960-61, US-Soviet relations were at their flashpoint, and global nuclear war seemed near. The 1962 Cuban missile crisis brought our world to the very brink of World War III. It would have been the war to end all wars, and quite possibly the end of the world as well.
In the 1950s and 1960s Britain had a very creditable civil defence structure. After nuclear attack the country would be governed by regionally-based commissioners from Regional Seats of Government. Below them, doing the work, were local authorities and the 300,000-strong Civil Defence Corps and other voluntary groups. By 1968 this had all been effectively scrapped and civil defence was put on a “care and maintenance” basis. There was a slight upturn in 1974 when regulations were made requiring local authorities to make plans. But it is apparent that little happened in concrete terms at any level between 1968 and 1980.In 1979 the Conservatives came to power and soon announced a review of Civil Defence or as the Home Secretary called it “a review of civil preparedness for home defence”. The full results of this were never published, but it would not be hard to guess what was found after more than a decade when virtually nothing had been done.
In 1980, as a result of the review, some immediate measures were introduced. One important measure was to shorten the expected warning period from 3-4 weeks to seven days. Another was the idea that there may be a conventional non-nuclear war which should be planned for. Before, all plans had been based on the idea that the war would produce an immediate and all-out nuclear strike. In more specific terms the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation (UKWMO) was to be modernised, improvements were to be made to the Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS) and the `Green Goddess’ fire engines were overhauled. More importantly, more money was made available to local authorities for their civil defence measures and to provide for the Emergency Planning Officers to oversee them. It also appears that an unannounced decision was made to refurbish the SRHQs
By 1960-61, Canadians and Americans had it on the best government authority that nuclear war was inevitable. We were urged to protect ourselves from radioactive fallout in family shelters equipped with survival kits and stores of food and water. In Calgary, Bill and Lorna Purdy, a registered nurse, prepared themselves and their four young children – with a fifth child on the way – to survive nuclear war in their basement shelter. Following government instructions, Lorna packed her husband’s briefcase with a first aid notebook and kit; civil defence pamphlets including “If War Should Come”; “Your Basement Fallout Shelter”; and “Survival in Likely Target Areas”; hatchet, can opener, flashlight, candles and matches; lipstick, deodorant, soap, and shaving gear; toothbrushes and vitamins; diapers, baby powder and diaper rash ointment for the child Lorna was expecting; Kleenex and sanitary napkins; spare socks and cigarettes. Most chilling of all are four identification toe tags, one for each of the Purdy children, aged four, five, six, and seven.
The Purdy family survival kit is an exceedingly rare survivor of the Cold War era, and a haunting reminder of how we faced that earlier global crisis.
Refs Cold-War History in Manchester
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