Beneath the City Streets
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Author | |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Subject | Civil Defence |
Genre | Non-Fiction |
Publisher | Allen Lane |
Publication date | 1970 |
Media type | Book |
Pages | 247 |
ISBN | 0-7139-0114-4 |
OCLC | 222366 |
363.350941 | |
LC Class | UA929.G7 L34 |
Beneath the City Streets: A Private Inquiry into the Nuclear Preoccupations of Government is a 1970 book by British author . It details the existence and necessity of underground bunkers, food depots, and government safe havens throughout underground London and the UK from 1914 to 1970.[1]
The book consists of linked articles on aspects of nuclear war and UK civil defence:
- War Comes to the British Homeland
- What the Bomb Does to People, Houses and Other Things
- Accuracy of Rockets and Nuclear Effect Against Military Targets
- Two Kinds of Nuclear War, and Their Drawbacks
- MIRV, ABM and the Arms Race. Hardware in Space and Under the Sea
- Chemical and Biological Weapons
- British Civil Defence and the H-Bomb
- Recovery from a Nuclear War
- Government Citadels in Britain
- The Impact of Latent Nuclear War on Democracy
References[]
- ^ Laurie, Peter (1970). Beneath the City Streets. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 0-7139-0114-4.
External links[]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090428005836/http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/books.html
- Home Office reaction to book on civil defence ('Beneath the City Streets') by Peter Laurie, UK National Archives reference HO 322/777
Categories:
- 1970 non-fiction books
- Subterranean London
- Civil defense
- Technology book stubs
- Nuclear weapon stubs
- London stubs