This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service. This country has been attacked with

nuclear weapons. Communications have been severely disrupted, and the number of

casualties and the extent of the damage are not yet known. We shall bring you

further information as soon as possible. Meanwhile, stay tuned to this

wavelength, stay calm and stay in your own homes.

Remember there is nothing to be gained by trying to get away. By leaving your

homes you could be exposing yourselves to greater danger.

If you leave, you may find yourself without food, without water, without accommodation and

without protection. Radioactive fall-out, which followed a nuclear explosion, is many

times more dangerous if you are directly exposed to it in the open. Roofs and

walls offer substantial protection. The safest place is indoors.

Make sure gas and other fuel supplies are turned off and that all fires are

extinguished. If mains water is available, this can be used for fire-fighting.

You should also refill all your containers for drinking water after the fires

have been put out, because the mains water supply may not be available for very

long.

Water must not be used for flushing lavatories: until you are told that

lavatories may be used again, other toilet arrangements must be made. Use your

water only for essential drinking and cooking purposes. Water means life. Don't

waste it.

Make your food stocks last: ration your supply, because it may have to last for

14 days or more. If you have fresh food in the house, use this first to avoid

wasting it: food in tins will keep.

If you live in an area where a fall-out warning has been given, stay in your

fall-out room until you are told it is safe to come out. When the immediate

danger has passed the sirens will sound a steady note. The "all clear" message

will also be given on this wavelength. If you leave the fall-out room to go to

the lavatory or replenish food or water supplies, do not remain outside the room

for a minute longer than is necessary.

Do not, in any circumstances, go outside the house. Radioactive fall-out can kill. You cannot

see it or fell it, but it is there. If you go outside, you will bring danger to your family and you

may die. Stay in your fall-out room until you are told it is safe to come out or you

hear the "all clear" on the sirens.

Here are the main points again:

Stay in your own homes, and if you live in an area where a fall-out warning has

been given stay in your fall-out room, until you are told it is safe to come

out. The message that the immediate danger has passed will be given by the

sirens and repeated on this wavelength. Make sure that the gas and all fuel

supplies are turned off and that all fires are extinguished.

Water must be rationed, and used only for essential drinking and cooking

purposes. It must not be used for flushing lavatories. Ration your food supply:

it may have to last for 14 days or more.

We shall repeat this broadcast in two hours' time. Stay tuned to this

wavelength, but switch your radios off now to save your batteries until we come

on the air again. That is the end of this broadcast.