WAR GAMESmanual released in Britain, page 1

Pretty cool, came across this today.

LONDON - It's October 1968, and the Soviet Union has just landed astronauts on the moon. Warsaw Pact troops are massing on the Austrian border, and nuclear showdown looms between east and west.

This scenario never happened — except in planning exercises by British civil servants, who meticulously rehearsed how they would govern Britain in the days before, and after, World War III. The details are included in the "War Book," a secret Cold War manual declassified this month for the first time.

The book, which dates from 1970, is a step-by-step guide to dealing with a Cold War crisis, from the first stages of conflict to "R hour" — the release of all Britain's nuclear weapons.

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