Thanks t, you might be right about the alarmism - still, if you're going to be alarmist about anything... sounds like he has some inside knowledge about how the protocols would play out too.

On a lighter note, from the y/t comments:

'comment of the night was from Martin Massey “Can I claim my nuclear winter allowance”? Classic British humour'

lolz... self-deprecating to the last.
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