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Narrator: In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable.

CND Campaigner: This time, they are playing with, at best, the destruction of life as we know it, and at worst, total annihilation. You cannot win a nuclear war! Now just suppose the Russians win this war... What exactly would they be winning? What would they have conquered? Well, I'll tell you: all major centres of population and industry would have been destroyed...Oil refineries will have been destroyed, all our water will have been polluted, the soil will have been irradiated. Farmstock will be dead, diseased or dying. The Russians would have conquered a corpse of a country.

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