Flex Your Head
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Does anyone else remember the genuine fear and paranoia in the first half of the 1980's that nuclear war was imminent?
It got so bad that at school (Tideway), the headmaster called a special assembly for all pupils to explain that, despite the government's 'Protect & Survive' booklets which had just been slipped through our letter boxes, nuclear war wasn't going to destroy the UK and that we really should start thinking about those impending exams.
Such was the nihilism and pessimism at the time that I clearly remember friends at school casually talking about what they intended to do when we heard the inevitable 4 minute warning. Where they would go to attempt to survive, or what they would do in those final few minutes of anarchy.
Discussion was rife as to whether it was better to survive and live on somehow, or die in the first salvo of nuclear warheads.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_and_Survive
It's quite chilling to think about it now, but many of us genuinely thought we wouldn't make it to the year 2000.
Scary times:
Horrific times:
CND was prominent, and this film was finally allowed to be shown:
Quite disturbing that the threat of nuclear war played such a part of my teenage years. Anyone else?
It did unleash a whole slew of fantastic music though, none quite so wonderful as these 103 seconds of fragile protest:
It got so bad that at school (Tideway), the headmaster called a special assembly for all pupils to explain that, despite the government's 'Protect & Survive' booklets which had just been slipped through our letter boxes, nuclear war wasn't going to destroy the UK and that we really should start thinking about those impending exams.
Such was the nihilism and pessimism at the time that I clearly remember friends at school casually talking about what they intended to do when we heard the inevitable 4 minute warning. Where they would go to attempt to survive, or what they would do in those final few minutes of anarchy.
Discussion was rife as to whether it was better to survive and live on somehow, or die in the first salvo of nuclear warheads.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_and_Survive
It's quite chilling to think about it now, but many of us genuinely thought we wouldn't make it to the year 2000.
Scary times:
Horrific times:
CND was prominent, and this film was finally allowed to be shown:
Quite disturbing that the threat of nuclear war played such a part of my teenage years. Anyone else?
It did unleash a whole slew of fantastic music though, none quite so wonderful as these 103 seconds of fragile protest: