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The United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation (UKWMO) was a British civilian organisation operating between 1957 and 1992 to provide UK military and civilian authorities, in the event of war, with data about nuclear explosions and forecasts of subsequent fallout profiles across the country. The UKWMO was established and funded by the Home Office and utilised its own premises which were mainly staffed by Royal Observer Corps (ROC) uniformed full-time and volunteer personnel as the fieldforce. The ROC was administered by the Ministry of Defence but mainly funded by the Home Office. The only time the combined organisations were on high alert in the Cold War was during Cuban Missile Crisis in October and November 1962. The organisation was wound up and disbanded in November 1992 following a review prompted by the government's Options for Change report. Its emblem-of-arms was a pair of classic hunting horns crossing each other, pointed upwards, with the enscrolled motto "Sound An Alarm", a title also used for the latter of two contemporary public information films (the earlier one was called "Hole in the Ground"). Members of the UKWMO qualified for the Civil Defence Medal for fifteen years continuous years service, with a bar for each subsequent twelve years. ==The task== The United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation had five main functions in the event of nuclear war. These were: # Warning the public of any air attack. # Providing confirmation of nuclear strike. # Warning the public of the approach of radioactive fall-out. # Supplying the civilian and military authorities in the United Kingdom and neighbouring countries in NATO with details of nuclear bursts and with a scientific assessment of the path and intensity of fall-out # Provision of a post-attack meteorological service 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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