HC Deb 14 April 1981 vol 3 cc85-6W
6. Mr. Andrew F. Bennett

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if his Department has estimated the number of casualties which would occur if an attack were to be made on the United Kingdom along the lines of that envisaged by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation exercise Wintex/Cimex 81.

17. Mr. James Lamond

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if his Department has estimated how many casualties would arise in the United Kingdom as a result of an attack similar to that assumed in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation exercise Wintex/Cimex 81.

Mr. Goodhart

No. Exercise Wintex/Cimex 81 was designed to test NATO's crisis management procedures, including civil emergency planning. The figures produced for military and civilian casualties were solely for practice purposes, and did not represent an estimate of the likely scale of casualties to be expected in any real attack.

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