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Jamie Obrien <jamien@interworx.com.au> wrote:
> this stuff. Now normally i'd say 'they knew what they were doing, at
> the time,' but my god what were these people thinking! Yeah ducking
> under a table's going to protect you from a 20 Megaton atmospheric
> detonation.
I think they did know what they were doing. They wanted people frightened of
the Enemy, and at the same time they wanted people to be assured that their
own government had procedures for protecting them. Whether the procedures
would actually work was immaterial.
-> .debate
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