There were primitive toilets down there, with sacking "curtains" for privacy - very necessary during long air raids. In the winter we went armed with blankets, scarves, woolly hats, gloves etc., ...

Air raid sirens will be known to most ... This would be similar to the ‘four-minute warning’ system, which was created during the Cold War. Essentially this gave citizens a short term warning ...

It's a terrifying prospect, and one the people of Hawaii faced on Saturday when an emergency warning was ... nuclear attack siren for the first time since the end of the Cold War.