Beneath the City Streets: A Private Enquiry Into Government Preparations for National Emergency |
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
What the Hbomb does to people houses | 27 |
The Third World War | 53 |
Revolution | 97 |
British civil defence and the Hbomb | 114 |
Recovery from a nuclear war | 157 |
Government citadels in Britain | 178 |
Secret sites | 247 |
The impact of latent nuclear war on democracy | 271 |
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Beneath the City Streets: A Private Enquiry Into Government Preparations for ... Peter Laurie No preview available - 1979 |
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