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Old 1st Aug 2013, 11:44
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The dates don't fit.

In the 60s with V-Force QRA and the National Deterrent the BBC Light Programme would have become a public service broadcast, I can't remember the name Peter Hennessy said it was.

What we expected to hear was:

"Codeword is now in force."

There was little difference from what was broadcast 20 years previously. I have no idea if that was a single message or whether other codewords would have been broadcast as well. That one codeword would have both authorised our strike and declared which target set was in effect.
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