Harry Payne Nuclear Diary
Monday 3 September
I was woken by the radio. It was 7:30am and so early in the morning the Israelis and the Palestinians were arguing. The news reporter was talking about the number of nuclear arms the two countries had. It sounded like the situation in the Middle East was getting very tense; in the last few weeks they had been bombing each other in fact the Lebanese had been sending in suicide bombers. Then Israel had fought back by launching rocket attacks on Lebanese targets but now it sounded more like war, the attacks were more frequent. More and more people were being killed.
The thing is that both countries have enough nuclear warheads to destroy the other. If they were to fire nuclear warheads at each other America would intervene and attack the Lebanese. Inevitably they would then strike at the American bases in England therefore causing a nuclear world war. I have before now thought that the trouble in the Middle East would just affect that area. Why should we be dragged into trouble that has nothing to do with us? We only have American bases in England to keep the connections with America. Is nuclear war in England just a button push away?
By 12:00pm the comments coming from the two countries was awful. I used to think that dying asleep was scary but dying very slowly as you would in a nuclear explosion a long slow very painful death is horrific. People were now getting very worried about the threat of attack. No one went to school today we were all getting things together incase the violence in the Middle East got worse. The government had issued a pamphlet to every household in Britain, it told you how to survive a nuclear attack some people thought it was just rubbish but we didn't have much else that may save us, anything would help even if it just stops the mass riots.
