Did you know that with a few home-made props you & your tamily can survive a nuclear war?
No? Then read Protect and Survive, just published by the government. Or wait for one to be pushed through your door when the country is faced with an immediate nuc.
The first lesson is- don't waste your time protesting 'Your best protection is to make a fallout room & build an inner refuge within it.
FALLOUT ROOM The fallout room should be downstalrs, away lom dul side walls and roof. Radiation can penetrate brickwork, but don't worry - there is a picture of a man pulling his wardrobe against the French winWhatever you do, don't take shelter in a block of flats above the 5th floor. What's that? You live in a high-rise block? Tough.
A caravan is not much use either, nor is a bungalow....
In fact, if you don't live in a suburban semi-detached outside the five-mile blast area, you've got problems.
INNER REFUGE Here are some ideas for the 'inner refuge':
* U'se three doors from șour upstairs rooms. Lean them against a wall and pile sandbags around them. Crawl in with your four kids and stay there for a fortnight.
* Put sandbags on the stairs and live in the cupboard un* Live under the table surrounded by suitcases, chests of drawers and any other radiation-proof items lying You will need a fortnight's supply of food until normal now a fight within the labour movement to commit it to a clear policy of fighting Thatcher's nuclear madThe mass demonstration called by the Labour Party last month was a major step in that ditection as I won't die for Thatcher • STOP • CRUISE MISSILE:
services are resumed. Also, buy hundreds of other things including a 'loo' bucket and a calender to tick off the days.
ATTACK WARNING Then you hear the sirens. If you are at home, shut the windows and draw the curtains. Take everyone to the fallout room. It you are not at home, then get there in 'a couple of minutes'.
'If you are out in the open, go to the nearest building' If you can't get in - because everyone's in their fallout rooms - take any kind of cover. For example, lie flat in a ditch 'and cover yourself with a coat'. That will take care of any bombs that happen to be floating about.
FALLOUT After the nuclear attack you get up and attend to any essential tasks before the fallout descends.
If the house is on fire, you put it out. 'If there is structural damage from the attack, you may have some time be fore a fallout warning to do minor jobs to keep out the weather'. Weil..ii you can't keep out the fallout, at least you can keep out the weather.
Then you hear three bangs • the fallout warning. If you are out of doors, wipe all the fallout dust off your skin before entering a building. If you are at home, climb into your inner refuge.
It's all very simple, really.
What I can't understand is why . if it is this easy - all those government officials are building massive underground shelters.
is its decision to support the CND demonstration this October. Continued action must now be mounted to commit the Labour leaders to agree to abandon any British 'deterrent' and to get out of NATO now!