Beneath the city streets: A private enquiry into government preparations for national emergency By Peter Laurie

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Book by Laurie, Peter Beneath the city streets: A private enquiry into government preparations for national emergency

A time capsule of a book from times when nuclear war felt more immediately likely. Fascinating for londoners interested in what is hidden around the place Beneath the city streets: A private enquiry into government preparations for national emergency Written perhaps a little more warmly that the more substantial Campbell's War Plan:UK the information given in Beneath the City Streets is a little dated now, particularly in terms of communications infrastructure.

Nevertheless it answered a small number of the many questions I have about the secrets of the Cold War years that I was too afraid to ask at the time.

Paradoxically optimistic at times. Beneath the city streets: A private enquiry into government preparations for national emergency From more paranoid days perhaps - many are now reused for something else - still quite something. In the 1970s UK everyone thought socialist revolution/insurrection was a real possibility. Hence the idea that the secret state was preparing for the worst - of which there was some evidence. The undoubted, widespread desire for change was eventually channeled into the right wing Thatcher government. The domination was v cathartic for some : ) Beneath the city streets: A private enquiry into government preparations for national emergency Sometimes very interesting but mostly very boring Beneath the city streets: A private enquiry into government preparations for national emergency Definitely showing its age a bit, but meticulously researched and very fascinating example of what open-source analysis can produce. Also, concludes with a fairly chilling and prescient prediction of a post-automation economics and widespread disillusionment. Beneath the city streets: A private enquiry into government preparations for national emergency

Ok book about secret tunnels,sites etc to be used in the event of a nuclear war Beneath the city streets: A private enquiry into government preparations for national emergency