Nuclear Holocaust: Russians Would Not Bomb Wales
THE Mail is making preparations for Armageddon, as ever it should.
It has seen a report from the Defence Plans Division, released by the National Archives, and what the Government of 1955 “assumed” would happen in the first two weeks of a nuclear war.
“The tea position would be very serious,” notes one civil servant. “With a loss of 75 per cent of stocks and substantial delays in imports and with a system of rationing, it would be wrong to consider that even 1oz per head per week (enough for about 12 cups) could be ensured.”
To the Mail the tea shortage is headline news. But surely the bigger story is what the Russians deem worthy of annihilation, and if the plan takes into account a post-apocalyptic Britain, and which places the invading Russians would feel most at home in.
The top five targets of the Soviets were London, Birmingham, Merseyside, Manchester and Clydeside.
In addition, 14 less powerful atom bombs, “similar to the one dropped on Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War”, were to fall on Tyneside, Teeside, Leeds, Sheffield, Hull, Derby, Southampton, Portsmouth, Bristol, Plymouth, Cardiff, Coventry, Belfast and Purfleet in Essex.
Indeed, dear reader, Red Russians hell bent on destroying all that is good/bad in Britain deemed Wales worthy of saving.
Or else, not worth a bomb?
May 5th, 2008 at 11:17 am
It all makes sense now. Until 1955, Wales did not have a capital. It was only in that year that Cardiff was proclaimed to be the capital. It was probably in response to this intelligence. An act of unselfish generosity from Whitehall to make sure the principality received its fair share of the nuclear sun
May 5th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Yes, but what about the tea?
Were they including the Welsh in their calculations?
May 5th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Let them eat bara brith!
May 5th, 2008 at 11:47 am
but surely they had a secret plan to send in anne robinson to save uranium…
May 5th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Bugger tea!
What’s the point of surviving if there’s no uisge-bha or ale or wine to be had?
May 5th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
My worst nightmares are confirmed now. Governments clearly can’t think. Tea? Who cares about tea after an nuclear attack? How about beer, whisky, wine, cava etc? All these poor broken bottles….
May 5th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Duncan,
I should have refreshed the page before posting. Two of a kind or is it just great minds think alike?
May 5th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Totje -
Cheers !
May 5th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Totje and Duncan,
Great minds think alike.
Fools never differ.
You choose.
May 5th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Wonder how much ale I can get down my neck when the 4-minute warning’s given?
May 5th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Was Welshman GG involved in the don`t bomb Wales decision? After his sudden return to the site around two months ago he has disappeared again. Maybe, he is in Russia now talking to Putin about not bombing Oxfordshire where I believe he is living now.
It was only a few years ago that Putin was given a state visit in England, but diplomatic relations with the British government have now have gone right down the tube.
Weapons? The historian JP Taylor said, that whatever weapons man has invented over the centuries they have ultimately used them. How true. More advanced technology but sadly, no more advanced when it comes to wisdom.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Actually they appear to have left Scotland out, is this because of the whisky?
Stockpile wine, and stockpile it now, and don’t forget corkscrews
May 5th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Just seen Clydeside,ah well….
May 5th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Basildon in Essex was always a nuclear free zone, it was signposted as such, so that would be a good place to run to.
Or not.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Basildon? I avoid that place like the bloody plague, always gives me a headache
May 5th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
JJ… nuclear free zone though! Or would death in the poison cloud be preferable?
May 5th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
I think this is the first thread I’ve ever read where Wales has been denied something that hasn’t got an onslaught of “We’re as good as the rest of em why not us too?” reaction from we Welsh (apart from faint mutterings from the gallery here). Something finally shut us tf up . It had to happen.