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Thinks: Domesday Machine has strong #ProtectAndSurvive vibes. See also... "Come and see the last surviving Domesday Machine before it's too late!"   #Domesday #Doomsday
"In an unusually frank admission of lobbying children, a web page promoting the game stated that it “aligns with our work to build future talent pipelines and secure permission to operate at a time of sensitivity around fossil fuels, particularly in light of . . . the Rosebank development" " #FossilCapital #protectandsurvive
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-06-05/oil-company-uses-computer-game-to-promote-fossil-fuels-to-uk-schoolchildren
Oil giant Equinor funds game that promotes fossil fuels to children

An online game used in UK schools portrays oil, gas and coal as part of a green transition.

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@superflippy @TheBreadmonkey A mattress against an interior wall, a bath full of tap water and bedsheets at the windows, that was good enough for us in the 70s #ProtectAndSurvive

If you've been playing Fallout London, you might like to watch the original secret government films that helped inspire its imagery:

https://fedi.video/w/5cnR7hvcT87VPPRcgiTWZ2

The videos were intended to tell people what to do in the event of a nuclear war, and would only have been shown on TV if an attack was imminent. They were made in secret and never officially released.

However, they were leaked to the media in 1980 and became part of pop culture as they were simultaneously absurd and horrifying.

#FalloutLondon #Fallout #NuclearWar #ProtectAndSurvive #UK

Protect and Survive (1980) (UK government series about what to do in a nuclear war)

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We did #ProtectAndSurvive drills in my school in the eighties in the UK, if that helps. It was when Ronnie Reagan was wittering on about his "Star Wars" stuff that would set Europe on fire to protect the US Heartland. Real reassuring stuff from the Leader of the Free World.

The world has been on the edge of a nuclear precipice since the 1950s and 1960s, but as conflict threatens to escalate across the Middle East, this feels like the most dangerous time since the Cuban missile crisis. In the past, there were at least diplomats and pragmatists to keep the lid on the hawks, but where have they gone? #CubanMissileCrisis #ProtectAndSurvive #UnitedStates #CND #Israel #Palestine https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-times/4003572/russia-nuclear-war-in-the-1980s/
Protect and survive: When Scotland was braced for nuclear war in the 1980s

It was the festive news nobody in the Western world wanted; the Russian invasion of Afghanistan on Christmas Eve in 1979. As a teenager, I could tell from

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Really not sure which is more surreal about this film - the rather down-home title or the breezy intro music.....its darned catchy.....
"A How-To-Do-It project"

...and remember...."No home in America is modern without a family fallout shelter"

#GoodOldWalt
#ProtectAndSurvive
#NuclearWar
#DIYTips
#SafetyGoggles

Those of us in the UK who watched TV in the late 70s will most likely remember the government's public information series 'Protect and Survive'.

They were criticised at the time as giving the impression that a nuclear attack was survivable and therefore made such an attack more likely.

#ProtectAndSurvive #PublicInformation #NuclearWar #GovernmentPropaganda