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Old 4th Apr 2011, 12:21
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Blacksheep
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36 hrs to the Channel coast
Ho-hum! Whatever happened to the trigger line? You know. The one where if the reds reached it we'd start firing off the sunshine?

In the end it would have been all out nuclear war with something like 60,000 or so nuclear detonations. The view of myself and my comrades in arms, serving as we did at the time, on a primary target, it would have been better to be instantly vapourised in a first strike than to survive the holocaust. And don't forget that our generation actually believed that it was definitely going to happen.
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