London :: United Kingdom
| about 1 month ago
The doomsday script was never used by the British Broadcasting Corp., but decades later the message remains haunting. "This is the wartime broadcasting service," the announcement begins. "This country has been attacked with nuclear weapons." The decades-old...
Tags: BBC News, nuclear attack, Britain, severely disrupted, wartime broadcasts, broadcasts service, nuclear war, cold war
New York :: NY :: USA
| 4 months ago
In a New York Times Op Ed article dated July 18, and titled "Using Bombs to Stave Off War", Prof. Benny Morris of Ben-Gurion University warns that Israel "will almost surely attack Iran's nuclear sites in the next four to seven...
Tags: Israeli professor, nuclear attack, Israel, Iran
Denver :: CO :: USA
| 5 months ago
Washington is laid to waste. The Capitol is a blackened, smoking ruin. The White House has been razed. Countless thousands are dead. This is the apocalyptic scene terrorists hope to create if they ever get their hands on a nuclear bomb. The computer-generated...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Nuclear Attack, Terrorism, Extremist
Birmingham :: United Kingdom
| 6 months ago
Nuclear Threat To Great British Cuppa Updated:00:29, Monday May 05, 2008 Whitehall officials in the 1950s worried about the survival of the great British cuppa in the event of a nuclear attack, documents have revealed. Tea fears in the 1950s The tea situation...
Tags: nuclear threat, nuclear attack, tea position, substantial delays, food supplies