Fic: Protect and Survive

[jjpor]

Fic: Protect and Survive, Part I: Attack Warning Red

As a child in the 80s, the strange and scary notion of nuclear warfare never seemed far away. Maybe I was just a strange and sensitive child... :D Certainly, it was even reflected in the Doctor Who stories of the era; Warriors of the Deep and Battlefield seem particularly heavy on the anti-nuclear preaching. So, this is my version of that; Seven and Ace versus The Bomb. And Ace seems like an obvious choice for this, being even more obviously a child of the 80s than even those other companions who nominally originated in the same era. As always, I do not claim to own Doctor Who or any of its associated copyrights; if only...

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Comments

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

I was only just six years old when the USSR fell apart, so I remember nothing about the Cold War. Still, I can certainly relate to the fear of nuclear war.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Well, I was only a small child myself at the height of it; but it was something that seemed very much in the background a lot of the time in those days. I remember the nuclear disarmament protesters at the airbase at Greenham Common, and Star Wars and all of that stuff; strange. I don't know if you've seen Threads, but it is quite possibly one of the most disturbing things ever put on British television. Not quite as whompingly heartbreaking as When the Wind Blows; I remember our English teacher showing us that when were doing about nuclear war fiction, and I think it scarred me (and I was older by then!); like Watership Down, but even worse...