Tune in to death

Socialist Challenge No. 185, 19 February 1981 · p. 13 of the scan · 119 words

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page 13 of the scan

WORRIED about getting caught short with the bomb on your way Trom Relax. Now you ouy your own portabit fall-out shelter, , manuby the welltactured named Aftermath.

When the sky lights up and your friends start vaporising. you slip smartly into your silver foil blanket.

Then you eat your iron rations and switch on the radic which presumably will burn-byburn account big bang, interspersed hit tunes like Chopin's Funeral March.

After the blast, the firestorm. and the taliroll up your and catch the first 68 bus home.

There is one small snag. Aftermath does tell you that shelter is designed for one-megaton somos. while most bombs are now in the two- and class.

So you get the