Date: 2nd July Ref: PR29
STATE OF WAR
Piecing together what information we have, it seems that the nuclear strike on the UK was contained to a period of 16 hours, and that no weapons have been used for 36 hours. We are not yet in a position to estimate what has happened in Europe, the USA or in the Eastern Bloc. As time goes by I assume it becomes less likely that we will be attacked again.
Date: 14th July Ref: PR29
VIGILANTE GROUPS
The Regional Commissioner has been contacted directly by the County Controller of Derbyshire. The County Controller is concerned about possible tension between emerging local leaders and official authority. He says that in some places there are attempts to establish local vigilante groups for the protection of residents and the exclusion of outsiders.
With the present general confusion and limited availability of police he proposes to try to secure the allegiance of such groups by giving the leaders some semi-official recognition, e.g. by means of a badge or such like, plus special access to senior officials.
This possibility raises issues of such magnitude that the Regional Commissioner wishes the policy group to give advice to him on whether or not these groups should be recognized.
Two communiques from ORC, the Office of the Regional Commissioner, chief civilian authority of Britain's CENT-REG (Central Region) - comprising the five counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire - in the aftermath of the June 29th 1984 nuclear exchange between NATO, the Warsaw Pact and the USSR. During what very much later came to be known as "The Little Death", CENT-REG's local command posts were badly damaged - with Leicester's bunker destroyed, and both HQs at Lincoln and Sheffield lost. Only Derbyshire, with its HQ at Matlock, was unaffected.
The Home Office's Integrated Regional Recovery Plan, by which the re-establishment of civilian authority was assigned to the multi-county Commissions, was somewhat optimistically codenamed Regenerate.