Nuclear security

WW3: Secret Home Office doc exposes UK nuclear fears – 'Given the inevitability of war’

The papers, which were obtained by Express.co.uk, revealed a series of conversations between the Home Office and film producer Bruce Parsons. Dated October 22, 1975, the letters discuss the “inevitability of nuclear war” in reference to the Arms Race between the Soviet Union and the US. The Home Office requested Mr Parsons services to help produce a series of short films that would come to be known as the “Protect and Survive” campaign.

The series was intended to inform British citizens on how to protect themselves during a nuclear attack, and consists of a mixture of pamphlets, radio broadcasts, and public information films.

One of the letters, from Mr Parsons to a number of illegible recipients, read: “We have been asked by the Home Office to produce a series of 22 films which are designed to inform the public on means of survival in the event of nuclear war.

“The Home Office brief states: ‘Given a deteriorating international situation and the inevitability of nuclear war, the Government of the day would wish to release to the general public of the UK information on protection and survival’.