Sure enough, it was Nikita Khrushchev, epigrammatist, agriculturist, commissar, statesman—and now, it seemed, officially a war hero ... and alerting the British and U.S. public to the chance ...

This grave warning was issued in “Protect and Survive,” a pamphlet produced by the British government during the Cold War to advise civilians on what to do in the event of a nuclear attack.