Talk:Four-minute warning

message: Re the definition in the intro, doesn't 4 minutes refer to the time between the public alert and the arrival of nuclear missiles (i.e. four minutes advance warning of an attack), rather than the time between initial detection and the issuing of a public alert? 84.70.44.223 23:32, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe you're correct. I'll edit... -- Hux 16:26, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  If I remember correctly four minutes was listed as the _maximum_ warning time to be expected by the public. I'm sure Duncan Campbell wrote about that in 'War Plan UK'. Mark Grant 14:53, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The estimated maximum time between detection and impact was seven minutes, with three minutes taken to get the system activated. Mauls 13:27, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Intro

message: The current sentence is incorrect. BMEWS was not an RAF system. The sentence should read " by the NATO Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) at RAF Fylingdales...The RAF manned UK RAOC but the BMEWS was operated by personnel from several countries and mainly the US. 21stCenturyGreenstuff (talk) 12:48, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: BMEWS

message: Where on earth did this tommy rot gibberish about the WB400 system "falling into disservice during the 60s and 70s" come from. It most certainly did NOT, the system was only 20 years old by the seventies and was working perfectly, it was tested on a regular basis. The only thing that was becoming slightly outdated was the need for telephone engineers to manually switch the telephone lines before use, during times of tension or transition to war. In the 1980s the new upgraded Wanrning Broadcast WB1400 system was designed to upgrade and replace it, in conjunction with hardened, permanent telephone connections. 21stCenturyGreenstuff (talk) 13:01, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: WB1400 System

message: The External Link to the Donaldson recording leads to an outdated version of Real Audio that won't play on current versions of RealPlayer. Is there not another version available somewhere in a more stable format like wav or mp3? 23skidoo (talk) 01:54, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Another link for the Donaldson recording needed

message: The 1963 booklet "Civil Defence Handbook no.10: Advising the Householder on Protection Against Nuclear Attack" actually does have an exception for those in Scotland. The "grey warning" (fallout expected within the hour) was to be given by oral or whistle message rather than a steady siren tone or ringing church bells. (It's not clear whether the "In Scotland" applies to the siren and the bells or just the bells.)
The "black warning" (imminent danger of fallout) was the same in Scotland as elsewhere -- maroons (fireworks), gongs or whistles making a Morse D (--..). Somebody was expected to do this suicidal and perhaps futile job, which has a sort of dark humour of its own.
Anyway, I added it because it is a factual example of a Cold War "except for viewers in Scotland." I put it with the cultural reference because it's really only interesting beside that, I think.
Roches (talk) 22:24, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Except for viewers in Scotland 

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