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No, that'll be plenty.

Well, tell him to improvise, then. Right.

- Do you think anything will happen?

- No, it's just a precaution.

Have you had a shave this morning?

You should never have said you'd do it.

You don't have to.

You won't get the sack if you refuse.

Look, Marjorie,

it's difficult for me as well, you know.

I don't want to go

and leave you and the children.

Well, then, why are you going?

Somebody's got to pick up the pieces if...

Why didn't you say something before

if you were worried about it?

You never said anything

when I went on those courses.

Sutton here.

Unconfirmed reports...

Yes, in half an hour's time.

I should be going off now, if I were you.

The roads will be getting busy.

Well, use your common sense, man.

How should I know?

Marjorie, leave that.

I'll ring you later.

What?

Yes. Yes.

It is imperative,

while there is still time left,

that the TUC call a general strike

in protest against this disaster

which faces us all.

- That's what'll destroy this country!

- There is still time to avert disaster

if we act resolutely and show

both the Russians and the Americans

that we will have no truck

with their warmongering.

- What about the Falklands?

- What about the Falklands?

There's nobody more patriotic than I am.

I've been trying to get us

out of the Common Market.

But first...

Please do not play into their hands.

This is a peaceful demonstration.

We are exercising

our right of free speech.

The police have no right

to stop this demonstration.

Do not play into their hands.

You have no...

Tin openers! 1.50 a go.

Come on, all of you.

1.50 could save your life!

- Morning, Clive.

- Morning, Alan. What's it like?

- It's a bit primitive. Take a look.

- We'll get it organized.

Where the hell is everybody?

- You know Steve, Information Officer?

- Where are they?

- Jeff's car's broken down.

- That's no good, is it?

- How many missing?

- About ten.

Get on the phone.

I want 'em here immediately.

- Which is my desk?

- Straight through.

Mind your head.

No sign of the Emergency Committee.

You know

what those councilors are like.

- They're not getting paid for this.

- This is the best I could do.

Dr. Talbot, Regional Health Authority.

- How are things going?

- We're doing our best.

Emergency headquarters

like this have been hastily improvised

in the basements

of town halls and civic centers.

The time has now come to make

everything ready for you and your family

in case an air attack happens.

This does not mean

that war is bound to come,

but there is a risk of this

and we must all be prepared for it.

When you hear the attack warning, you

and your family must take cover at once.

Do not stay out of doors.

If you are caught in the open, lie down.

Can you pass us that...

If you leave your home,

your local authority may take it over

for homeless families,

and if you move,

the authorities in the new place

will not help you with food,

accommodation or other essentials.

You are better off in your own home.

Stay there.

If anyone dies

while you are kept in your fall-out room,

move the body

to another room in the house,

label the body with name and address

and cover it as tightly as possible

in polythene, paper, sheets or blankets.

lf, however, you have had a body

in the house for more than five days

and if it is safe to go outside,

then you should bury the body

for the time being in a trench

or cover it with earth

and mark the spot of the burial.

Here are some ideas

for making your inner refuge.

One:
make a lean-to

with sloping doors or strong boards

rested against an inner wall.

- You all right, love?

- I've just been sick again.

Oh, I feel awful.

I think I'll go back to bed.

Don't worry about it, love.

It'll only last for a week or two.

No.

I'll ring work and tell them

you're not coming in.

If anybody's there.

There were only one or two yesterday.

It's worse than before.

I can't get anything now.

The line's dead.

We ought to be getting the rest

of the things out of the cellar now.

The time has now come to make

everything ready for you and your family

in case an air attack happens.

This does not mean

that war is bound to come,

but there is a risk of this

and we must all be prepared for it.

When you hear the attack warning, you

and your family must take cover at once.

Do not stay out of doors.

Hello, County. This is Sheffield District.

Testing, one, two, three, four.

Please report my signal. Over.

Whose responsibility is it?

We've all got families.

Look, just get down here.

There's nine other people.

I've got a serious public order problem.

I need at least an extra six PSUs.

Yeah, but when?

Look, I'm using traffic wardens already.

Many of these officers

have had no training at all.

Some have learned of their emergency

role only in the last few days

and almost all are unsure

of their exact duties.

I ought to take this one off as well.

It'll get scratched to pieces.

It's only just been painted.

- Better than getting blown to pieces.

- Shall I go to school, Mum?

What did it say on t'telly? I can't

remember if it said schools were closed.

It said on the news we're to stay at home.

- Are you sure?

- Of course I am.

- They're sending notes out.

- Is there time?

Great. I had a history test this morning.

Alison, go to Kirby's

and see if they've got any food left.

- Like what?

- Anything. Bring what you can.

- Take my purse.

- Dad, you gonna build one of these?

Over my dead body.

I want to know something more definite

before we rip this place to pieces.

- Can I help you?

- Here. Hold that.

We'll be able to sleep in it.

It'll be like going camping.

The most widespread danger

is fall-out.

Fall-out is dust that is sucked up

from the ground by the explosion.

Fall-out can kill.

It's 8:
30am.

3:
30 in the morning in Washington.

In the past four days neither

the President nor his senior staff

will have had

more than a few hours rest.

This is when they may be asleep

and Western response will be slowest.

Nearly all the supermarket shelves

are empty,

but we've got the warehouses

controlled by the police.

As yet we haven't located all the

root vegetable clumps on local farms,

but stocks of sugar,

wheat, flour and rice...

Attack warning. Attack warning.

- Is it for real?

- It's for bloody real.

Get to your stations.

Get that generator going!

Lock the doors.

As soon as you can, every scrap

of information you've got on casualties.

- Get your heads down.

- We can't sell you any timber.

It's a joinery, not a timber yard.

You can't just have a piece of that.

Come on, quick. Get down.

- These have gone. Everything's dead.

- What about t'tellies?

- Why didn't you pull the aerial out?

- Get the standbys working.

Come on.

Bloody hell.

Hold on, Gordon. You're going too fast.

Come on! That might just be t'start of it.

Jesus Christ, they've done it.

They've done it.

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