The Task
The United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation had five main functions in the event of nuclear war. These were:
- Warning the public of any air attack.
- Providing confirmation of nuclear strike.
- Warning the public of the approach of radioactive fall-out.
- Supplying the civilian and military authorities in the United Kingdom and neighbouring countries in NATO with details of nuclear bursts and with a scientific assessment of the path and intensity of fall-out
- Provision of a post-attack meteorological service
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