The United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation was a British civilian organisation operating to provide UK military and civilian authorities with data on nuclear explosions and forecasts of fa
UKWMO Emblem-of-Arms
WB1401 warning receiver in a former local authority control centre
ROC post observers in an underground monitoring post during a Cold War training exercise. The BPI dial can be seen in the background with a teletalk, FSM radiac instrument and a WB400 receiver on the desk
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The Royal Observer Corps was a civil defence organisation intended for the visual detection, identification, tracking and reporting of aircraft over Great Britain. It operated in the United Kingdom be
United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation
…in the event of nuclear war. The UKWMO was established in 1957 and funded by the Home Office and used its own premises which were mainly staffed by Royal Observer Corps (ROC) uniformed full-time and volunteer personnel as the fieldforce. The ROC was administered by the Ministry of Defence but mainly funded by the Home…
A Luftstreitkräfte Gotha G.V.
Air Commodore E A D Masterman, first Commandant of the Observer Corps, (wearing Observer Corps tie and lapel badge).
The signatories to the Munich Agreement
Observation post made from 'wriggly tin'.