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The four-minute warning was a public alert system conceived by the British Government during the Cold War and operated between 1953 and 1992. The name derived from the approximate length of time from the point at which a Soviet nuclear missile attack against the United Kingdom could be confirmed and the impact of those missiles on their targets.
"Four Minute Warning" is the first single released from Take That band member Mark Owen's second solo studio album, In Your Own Time. The single was released on 4 August 2003 as his first single on Island Records , after he was dropped from RCA in September 1997.
WB1401 warning receiver in a former local authority control centre. The Director UKWMO was located at the United Kingdom Regional Air Operations Command (UK RAOC) at RAF Booker tasked with instigating the four-minute warning. [4] The Deputy Director would be located at a standby UK RAOC, described at the time as being "elsewhere in the UK".
If I remember correctly four minutes was listed as the _maximum_ warning time to be expected by the public. I'm sure Duncan Campbell wrote about that in 'War Plan UK'. Mark Grant 14:53, 10 March 2007 (UTC) The estimated maximum time between detection and impact was seven minutes, with three minutes taken to get the system activated.
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Similarly the video for Mark Owen song Four Minute Warning contains Protect & Survive references. The comedian Chris Morris satirised public information films in The Day Today in an episode where there was a constitutional crisis. The Scarfolk website and book feature parodic posters in the British public information style. [citation needed]
3-Minute Warning, a professional wrestling tag team; Three-minute warning (football), a rule in Canadian football; 3 Minute Wonder, a Channel 4 documentary slot; Three Minute Warning, a song by Liquid Tension Experiment
The dynamotor took from 1/10 to 1/4 of a second to "spin up" to full power. Police officers were trained to push the microphone button, then pause briefly before speaking; however, sometimes they would forget to wait. Preceding each code with "ten-" gave the radio transmitter time to reach full power.