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Six million Londoners would die in a nuclear attack 1983-Peacelear

Socialist Challenge No. 275, 7 January 1983 · p. 12 of the scan · 593 words

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•Oxford Watford• Windsor Reading,/ • AldershotPortsmouth Luton Chelmsford •Potters Bar Hampstead Southend HEATH02-5 miles •Epsom 3 15 miles 4:20 miles • Tunbridge Wells Crawleye 530 miles 6°40 miles Brighten Easibeurne

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• Maidstone Tostome THE LABOUR CONTROLLED Greater London Council has designated 1983 as 'peace year'. A quarter of a million pounds has been set aside to campaign among Londoners on the dangers of nuclear war, and the government's nuclear strategy. This is particularly appropriate in the year in which Cruise missiles are due to be Molesworth sites as part of the US and British installed at the Greenham nuclear escalation against the Soviet Union.

GLC leader ingstone has invited the mayor of Moscow to visit London later this year • as part of the campaign. Last Monday Ken together with Gwyn Kirk from the Greenham Common peace camp unveiled statue in the jubilee gardens to launch the Year of Peace.

Livingstone said that the GLC had seen the civil defence plans for London and on the basis of these government plans it was AAS UCE that after nuclear attack on London, within one year six million ASTE /1 THINK KEN GOING A BIT FAR WHEN LVINGSIPNE HE MURPEREP AL THODE PEOPLE IN BALLYKELLY DIDN'T ACTUALLY... _ WE.L.TL AS YOU KNOW the Queen is keen on the famiand of the eight million people the capital would be dead The launching of the GLC's 'peace year" on the same day that 42 Greenham Peace Lamp womeu appeared at Newbury magistrates court charged *behaviour likely to breach of the eace' following their New Years Day invasion of the missile site during which they danced on top of the unfinished silos. il they refuse to be bound over, more women will be sent to jail SALTUGHT! HE DIDN'T!

BUT HE IS WILLING TO LISTEN TO THE VIEWS HWE SIN POIN TRAYSN ANP THEY PID ITE /WELL ACTUALLY"

Below account of the davastation which would be on London if it were hit by a megaton nuclear bomb. amis is among te siltauci bombs in today's nuclear a selal As megaton oomo urop ped on Westminster woulc Causd following effects: 1. WITHIN 3-4 MILES of the explosion. In this area all metals would vaporise as the temperature soared to 10 million degrees centigrade. This would be the case as far away as Brixton and kegents Park. Needless to Iles to would be in- in this alca stanteneous 2 e exptosion. in vais arm 4-6 MILES away from metals would merely melt So would the people bus passing iwou dveT Kew Bridge simply liquidise around its incinerated passengers SSHUT UPI 1 KNOW TAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PROVOS!

IM NOT CONCERN ED WITH THE FACTS!! OA TOURI • VOUC JOURNALIST!

to take over all those and prasuc burst into flames. Aircraft Heathrow would explode. Car tyres as far away as Watford would melt. The stands Epsom racecourse would burn to the ground. 4. AT 20 MILES. As far away Windsor wood and people spontaneously catch tire 5. AT 30 MILES. Clothes flare. On the outskirts of Crawley Reading, Maidenhead Tunbridge Wells and Aldershot people caught in the open are horribly burned 6. AT 40 MILES. People like Farnham, E0 SYS Southend and approaches Oxford suffer second degree burns and severe blistering.

This is just the beginning. Throughout the next year hundreds of thousands of people die from radiation sickness.

1 THOUGHT 1 RECOGNISED HIM : THINKS THE WORD MEANS TRISHMAN" OR "A HEALTH WORKER ON SHINE dollar Thatcher will send

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