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War Plan UK
Duncan Campbell, award-winning former staff writer on the New Statesman, reports on the results of five years' research into the real face of British civil defence.
• Millions will die as a direct result of government civil defence policies. The facts about the effects of nuclear attack on Britain are being consistently understated.
• There will be no rescue or medical aid for the trapped and dying in the aftermath of a nuclear attack.
• Secret civil defence plans stress sealing off cities, interning protesters and pacifists, and impounding food and fuel supplies.
• The real and only priority of civil defense is the protection of government and its war-making capacity.
• Home Defence plans are primarily designed to suppress dissent and asset government control in any crisis - peace or war.
War Plan UK reveals...
• Where the "privileged few" will full details of hundreds of bunkers and who will use them.
• Fifty years of muddle, miscalculation, waste and government deception of the public over civil defence.
War Plan UK starts with the full plans and scenarios for Hard Rock 82 - the war game that the govermnment abandoned becuse British Councils refused to "play".
• Millions will die as a direct result of government civil defence policies. The facts about the effects of nuclear attack on Britain are being consistently understated.
• There will be no rescue or medical aid for the trapped and dying in the aftermath of a nuclear attack.
• Secret civil defence plans stress sealing off cities, interning protesters and pacifists, and impounding food and fuel supplies.
• The real and only priority of civil defense is the protection of government and its war-making capacity.
• Home Defence plans are primarily designed to suppress dissent and asset government control in any crisis - peace or war.
War Plan UK reveals...
• Where the "privileged few" will full details of hundreds of bunkers and who will use them.
• Fifty years of muddle, miscalculation, waste and government deception of the public over civil defence.
War Plan UK starts with the full plans and scenarios for Hard Rock 82 - the war game that the govermnment abandoned becuse British Councils refused to "play".
659 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 20, 2026
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Five stars for its research?
One star because it’s terrifying reading it, and I certainly didn’t enjoy it?
I settled for the only logical rating which is to not rate it at all.
I can’t speak for contemporary Britain but, in the United States there is this curious fusion at the highest levels of two currents. First is a nihilistic mindset valuing humiliation for humiliation’s sake and destruction for destruction’s sake. The welfare state here- even at the best of times-has been a flimsy thing and after Reagan and his successors have hacked away at it what remains is a sprawling regulatory system that exists solely to say ‘no.’ The costs inherent in maintaining this system far exceed any benefits that they pay out to its recipients. It would be considerably cheaper to simply cut poor people a check every month to do with what they wished than making them submit to drug testing; employing an army of bureaucrats to determine what food is suitably bland to qualify for assistance; denying certain medications and treatments; scouring rental properties to find the most austere accommodations…
The second is a Christian fundamentalism that imagines itself not just the correct practitioner of Christianity but one that is also divinely sanctioned to fulfill Biblical prophecy. Point in fact in our ongoing foray into Iran some commanders briefed the men under their command that this was not the standard “regime change” of yesteryear; rather, this was a mission to bring about Biblical Armageddon.
Bad as this is already our nihilistic Christian-fundamentalist state also has a substantial nuclear arsenal.
Back to the book- where the author reveals that Britain has a set of plans however pitiful they might be they do at least attempt to imagine a structure to reconstitute society. The intrusive thoughts in my head tell me that a good bit of leadership thinks that they’re all going to be raptured should the missiles start flying and anyone else left behind is none of their concern anyway. Another- and not necessarily exclusive portion- is going to see a nuclear exchange as the ultimate culling to sweep away the undeserving masses. If the British government’s plans are so callous I do not want to know what the United States government’s plans are.
Five stars for its research?
One star because it’s terrifying reading it, and I certainly didn’t enjoy it?
I settled for the only logical rating which is to not rate it at all.
I can’t speak for contemporary Britain but, in the United States there is this curious fusion at the highest levels of two currents. First is a nihilistic mindset valuing humiliation for humiliation’s sake and destruction for destruction’s sake. The welfare state here- even at the best of times-has been a flimsy thing and after Reagan and his successors have hacked away at it what remains is a sprawling regulatory system that exists solely to say ‘no.’ The costs inherent in maintaining this system far exceed any benefits that they pay out to its recipients. It would be considerably cheaper to simply cut poor people a check every month to do with what they wished than making them submit to drug testing; employing an army of bureaucrats to determine what food is suitably bland to qualify for assistance; denying certain medications and treatments; scouring rental properties to find the most austere accommodations…
The second is a Christian fundamentalism that imagines itself not just the correct practitioner of Christianity but one that is also divinely sanctioned to fulfill Biblical prophecy. Point in fact in our ongoing foray into Iran some commanders briefed the men under their command that this was not the standard “regime change” of yesteryear; rather, this was a mission to bring about Biblical Armageddon.
Bad as this is already our nihilistic Christian-fundamentalist state also has a substantial nuclear arsenal.
Back to the book- where the author reveals that Britain has a set of plans however pitiful they might be they do at least attempt to imagine a structure to reconstitute society. The intrusive thoughts in my head tell me that a good bit of leadership thinks that they’re all going to be raptured should the missiles start flying and anyone else left behind is none of their concern anyway. Another- and not necessarily exclusive portion- is going to see a nuclear exchange as the ultimate culling to sweep away the undeserving masses. If the British government’s plans are so callous I do not want to know what the United States government’s plans are.
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