Political Reaction
Organizations such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protested that the pamphlet, by popularizing the idea that a nuclear war could be survived, made such a war more likely. The protest organizations published and sold large numbers of copies of the pamphlet, considering that widespread reading of the pamphlet could only discredit the government's policy. Counter-pamphlets such as "Protest and Survive" by E P Thompson or "Civil Defence, whose Defence," by the Disarmament Information Group replied to the pamphlet's arguments.
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