![]() I have no ability to concentrate on anything now and spend my time just lying here feeling like a shit bag,” he wrote.Today, as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sets the hands of its doomsday clock to an ominous 100 seconds to a nuclear midnight, maybe those hidey-holes are starting to look pretty good, although truth to tell, they were probably a bit more performative Cold War theatrics than actual protection. His urine bucket was full after 10 days the food tins began to grow mouldy, and an infestation of insects had joined him in the shelter. “I get a slight feeling of claustrophobia, and I take a deep breath of smelly, stale air, and think to myself: ‘That’s better.’ As the second week began, the toilet waste he had collected had started to decay, causing the waste bags to leak. “This place really begins to get on top of me,” he told his diary. Four days in, he started to lose track of time, and there wasn’t enough clean air in the shelter to sustain a candle. Soon, Hayden was questioning his own sanity. Left-leaning local authorities ridiculed the government’s Protect and Survive guidance (shown bottom of the picture) for being unworkable. ![]() Protesters dressed as Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in a makeshift nuclear fallout shelter, Manchester, June 1984.
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