Speak to some of the Servicemen who would have been left behind, ask about railway sleepers and their use in triage systems. That'll keep you awake nights.
"left behind" As in afterwards?
In theory, NBC Teams, wearing their NBC suits, would assemble at the NBC Centre, next to the Astra cinema, to be issued with their equipment. Team A would then proceed to measure and map radiation levels in the surrounding area to find the "coolest" spots for the casualty clearing stations. Team B would categorise the casualties, directing the walking wounded to the nearest casualty clearing station and marking an 'X' on the foreheads of those too severely injured to stand. Team C would treat those who were too severely injured to proceed to the casualty station by administering a 9mm full metal jacket behind the right ear. Team D were to use wood and other flammable materials, gathered by those collected at the casualty clearing stations, to build funeral pyres for the category X casualties that failed to recover from their treatment. You'd be amazed at how much wood it takes to consume a body but of course corpses are themseves flammable material.
In practice, there would have been no afterwards...
I recall that during my own training for Team C the instructor was talking about the destruction of the City of Lincoln and our role in dealing with those citizens who had survived. One chap pointed out that the destruction of Lincoln would be collateral damage caused by the two or three Megaton Range devices dropped on Scampton and Waddington.
"Yes. So?" asked the Rock Ape.
"So, we'll all have been vapourised and thus unable to participate."
"There's bound to be some of you on the p*ss in Nottingham that'll survive"
"...and you think we'll come back here? Really?"