Watch: The BBC's 1982 guide to nuclear armageddon

At some point in the 80s - I can’t have been older than 10 or 11 - my school went to some sort of expo in the Mansion House in Dublin. We were basically running around picking up all the pamphlets and fliers we could with no regard for what they actually were, and when I got home I realised one of mine was a Civil Defence booklet about what to do if Ireland got caught up in a nuclear detonation. It chilled tiny me to the bone.

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