# You are Prime Minister, what do you put in your 'Letters of Last Resort'?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-prime-minister-what-do-you-put-in-your-letters-of-last-resort/667834>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 2, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-prime-minister-what-do-you-put-in-your-letters-of-last-resort/667834 "2013-09-02T22:06:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-prime-minister-what-do-you-put-in-your-letters-of-last-resort/667834/41 "2013-09-19T16:56:31Z")

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> [@bump](#):
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> Even if that Commonwealth country is some dump like Nigeria, Bangladesh or Pakistan?

If you can drive your sub there then sure.  
Wouldn’t it be cool if Fiji (before it’s suspension) were a nuclear power?

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-prime-minister-what-do-you-put-in-your-letters-of-last-resort/667834/42 "2013-09-19T17:13:32Z")

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> [@bump](#):
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> Even if that Commonwealth country is some dump like Nigeria, Bangladesh or Pakistan?

Would you rather live in a wasteland full of radioactive rubble?

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-prime-minister-what-do-you-put-in-your-letters-of-last-resort/667834/43 "2013-09-19T17:25:07Z")

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> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> Would you rather live in a wasteland full of radioactive rubble?

I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that’s a rhetorical question.

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**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-prime-minister-what-do-you-put-in-your-letters-of-last-resort/667834/44 "2013-09-19T21:11:55Z")

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Whilst UK may have been reduced to rubble. treaty obligations would require providing military support to our allies and you would expect this arrangement to be reciprocated if the situation with an ally that had been attacked.

If any attack came, I would expect orders to be transmitted to satellites and rebroadcast as a loop, the sub commander would be able to pick them up, heck I would be expecting that the undersea ultra long wavelength comms would do something similar.

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