In post a Armageddon world - psychopaths would help to keep order

By : Administrator
Published 30th October 2014

I love it when the BBC dig up government files from recent living memory. In this case it's 1982 and the files are from a Home Office exercise testing how the UK would cope after a Nuclear Attack.

Remember the advice from years ago, hide under the kitchen table

Well if you survived, it seems one of the civil servants, Jane Hogg had an idea to recruit psychopaths to help keep order:

"It is... generally accepted that around 1% of the population are psychopaths," she wrote.

"These are the people who could be expected to show no psychological effects in the communities which have suffered the severest losses."

Hogg suggested psychopaths would be "very good in crises" as "they have no feelings for others, nor moral code, and tend to be very intelligent and logical".

lol brilliant, it seems some of her colleagues were understandably unconvinced.

Apparently the exercise was the inspiration for the BBC Drama "Threads" which closely resembled the exercise plot.

The BBC Article is called The nuclear attack on the UK that never happened, lets hope it stays that way in this post cold war but fruit cake invested world we live in!


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