Sunday, November 02, 2008

THIS IS THE NEWS -- THE LAST NEWS


“This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service. This country has been attacked with nuclear weapons. Communications have been severely disrupted, and the number of casualties and the extent of the damage are not yet known. We shall bring you further information as soon as possible. Meanwhile, stay tuned to this wavelength, stay calm and stay in your own homes. Remember there is nothing to be gained by running away. Make sure gas and other fuel supplies are turned off and that all fires are extinguished. Water must not be used for flushing lavatories. Until you are told that lavatories may be used again, other toilet arrangements must be made."

TPG sent us this chilling story of the BBC script for an announcement to be broadcast if the country came under nuclear attack in the early 1970s that has been released from files in the National Archives in London. Click here for more.

1 comment:

Gerin said...

This summer I spent 10 days speaking with Mr. Kanagawa-san, 76, from Hiroshima, who was young when he received that thing onto his head.
.. ..... ........ . .........
It was about black rain, screaming, high pitched sound, non-terrestrial heat, skin pelling, cataclysmic clouds... and the feeling of being abandoned by God.
Even the dead in their turbulent astral home were reached by that motherfuckers' invention.