Skip to content
Nuclear War in the UK
  • Home
  • Browse
    • By Document Type
      • Advertisement
      • Booklet
      • Document
      • Leaflet
      • Postcards
      • Poster
      • Protest
      • Public Information
      • Training and Tools
    • By Organisation
      • Central Government
      • Central Office of Information
      • Civil Defence Corps
      • Home Office
      • Local Government
      • Ministry of Defence
      • NATO
      • Post Office / BT
      • Royal Observer Corps
    • By Theme
      • Administration
      • Analysis
      • Civil Defence
      • Cultural responses
      • Emergency planning
      • Exhibitions
      • Infrastructure
      • International
      • Media
      • Medical
      • Military
      • Recruitment
  • Popular Articles
    • Protect and Survive – Creating the Campaign
    • Building a nuclear bunker: Hogs Back ROC Post
    • SOXMIS and BRIXMIS – ‘legal spying’ on the front lines of the Cold War
    • Domestic Nuclear Shelters
    • Protest by Post – the Cold War activism of Leeds Postcards
    • Threads – the film 35 years on
  • About the Blog
  • The Book

International

Airdropped leaflet from the Grapple nuclear tests

15 October 202022 July 2017

This is a leaflet produced by the British government in 1957 and intended to be airdropped over the Pacific Ocean.

Unlike most airdropped leaflets, this one isn’t propaganda – it’s a very real warning to get out of the area, or risk being nuked.

Continue reading this article…

Original content Copyright © 2017-2025 Taras Young.