Audio slideshow: Pressing the nuclear button

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In a corner of Wiltshire – deep underneath the Cotswolds – is a network of tunnels and rooms that would have housed the British government in the 1960s in the event of a nuclear attack.

The dark and dusty underground complex near Corsham has remained relatively untouched since the height of the Cold War.

But if the crucial moment had come – would ministers have pressed the UK’s nuclear button?

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