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David G. Coleman and Joseph M. Siracusa Real World Nuclear Deterrence: The Making of International Strategy (Praeger Security International, 2006)
In the early 1980s, with the nuclear arms race in full swing and the Doomsday Clock ticking ever closer to midnight, a story began to circulate around Hobart that the safest place in the world in the event of a nuclear winter was Tasmania. To be precise, the town of Margate, south of Hobart, was deemed to be the best place to be if ever the Cold War should turn hot. Margate's plentiful supply of clean water, abundant forests and rich soils, combined with the micro-climate and air currents afforded by the surrounding mountains, would, according to the theory, afford the best place to sit out nuclear Armageddon.
This news was received with a degree of what now seems misplaced pride. In retrospect, summoning the spectre of nuclear Armageddon seems a rather odd way to highlight the virtues of...
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