Nuclear Fallout Wargaming

Details

Location

Lisburn

Year

1967

Date

Production 21/05/1967

Length

04min 35sec

Audio

sound

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcast Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

Footage from 1967 of a wargaming exercise in the Lisburn area involving government employees mapping out the drift of nuclear fallout after a hypothetical nuclear attack upon the UK. Members of the Royal Observer Corps are seen taking readings outside a bunker which was located Thiepval Barracks in Lisburn. We also see the collecting of data and readings inside "65 Post" - a monitoring station situated nearby in Drumbo - while others record information on huge glass maps of the British Isles.

The film remains as a chilling reminder of the threat people felt hanging over their daily lives in the 1960s before it became accepted that any nuclear war would result in mutually assured destruction of all life. In 1967 such attacks were still being planned as having at least some chance of being survivable.

Shot List


Credits

An Ulster Television Production.
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