Britain had prepared apocalypse warning

LONDON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The British government said in a recorded announcement prepared in the 1970s that in case of a nuclear apocalypse that people should "stay in their homes."

The Daily Telegraph said Friday that the unearthed emergency script had been created to inform the general public how best to react in the event of incoming nuclear missiles and was based around calm and patience.

"This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service," the newly released recording said. "This country has been attacked with nuclear weapons."

"Meanwhile, stay tuned to this wavelength, stay calm and stay in your own homes," the message adds.

A letter written by former Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications official Harold Greenwood in 1974 accompanied the apocalypse warning that detailed who should record the announcement, the Telegraph reported.

"Indeed, if an unfamiliar voice repeats the same announcement hour after hour for 12 hours listeners may begin to suspect that they are listening to a machine set to switch on every hour (or even that it has got stuck) and that perhaps after all the BBC has been obliterated," Greenwood recommended.