Borrowing a trick from Blood & Treasure, an article over at the Guardian suggests that Manchester was destined to be the recipient of "one or two 'airbursts' of up to five megatons" in the event of war with the Soviet Union. The Nukemap website suggests the following effects for a five megaton airburst over Manchester:
Heaton Chapel is just to the north-west of Stockport, so I don't fancy two year-old me's chances very much.
Heaton Chapel is just to the north-west of Stockport, so I don't fancy two year-old me's chances very much.
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The proximity of the US air base at Chicksands would have done for us, I think.
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