“For they give us a four-minute warning
When the rockets are on their way
To give us time to panic, and Christians time to pray”
The Dubliners- Protect And Survive.
Surely there is one of these hiding in every house in Ireland, the excellent 1965 Civil Defence ‘Survival in a Nuclear War’ booklet? The page above is particularly silly and worthy of posting, but it doesn’t get much more sensible elsewhere.
Click on the book for more.
Click on the book for more.
Donal
Ciarán
Sam
Come Here To Me! 
Wow, that’s great. Is there more ?
John
Boy – does this EVER bring it back!
I remember this booklet well. But there was really nowhere under the stairs to hide in our house – just a tiny cubby-hole with the gas-meter in it.
And trying to figure out how long a full bath would provide drinking water for 2 adults and 6 kids.
When my Mother was a Leader in the Civil Defence Casualty Section and had all the nuclear fallout notes in a binder at home – fascinating reading.
Talk abut naive! But we survived Chernobyl – a single incident – what if it were a couple of tactical nukes on Sellafield? Perhaps not so comfortable……