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Hennessy's book also mentions the possible involvement of the RAC or AA (can't remember which, but presumably the RAC) as part of the comms network for controll
by mistakoala 13y ago
Hennessy's book also mentions the possible involvement of the RAC or AA (can't remember which, but presumably the RAC) as part of the comms network for controlling the UK's nuclear capability.
Off the top of my head, I think the idea was that, if the PM was out and about, he would make use of an RAC phone box (just like the police had TARDIS-like phone boxes, so did the breakdown rescue organisations) to issue instructions. A typically British, cobbled-together solution to some otherwise complex requirement.
- corin_ 13y agoIt was actually the AA not the RAC, and the precise nature of the system in place doesn't entirely seem to be known publicly.
- mistakoala 13y agoI wasn't suggesting that that was the precise nature of the system.
- arethuza 13y agoWorth noting that Hennessy was talking about the time of Harold Macmillan and the V-bombers. A great book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Secret-State-Whitehall-Cold/dp/0141008350 http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Secret-State-Whitehall-Cold/dp/0...