> It is easy to forget nowadays how much fear of nuclear war there used to be always lurking in the background. Not as good as your story, but I was walking ho

> It is easy to forget nowadays how much fear of nuclear war there used to be always lurking in the background. Not as good as your story, but I was walking home from school when the air-raid siren went off, sounding exactly as it does at the start of "Two Tribes". I was briefly very, very scared indeed, and very relieved to survive the next four minutes without being blown to atoms or fatally irradiated.