DETECTION OF FALL-OUT
1500 Posts Being Built In U.K.
. LONDON, August 22. About 1500 underground posts for the detection of wartime nuclear fall-out are being built throughout Britain, the Under Secretary for Air (Mr Airey Neave) revealed today. It was proposed to complete the building programme by 1961. Mr Neave was opening Britain’s first underground operations rooms at Bath, Somerset, where information on nuclear fall-out from 53 posts in the country could be collected and disseminated.
The operations room, which is self-contained, can accommodate more than 120 people for a fortnight.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28981, 24 August 1959, Page 11
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