Unsurprisingly a number of people did not want to be victims of another world war. They did not like the idea of being fried or slowly rotting from radiation sickness. They were not too keen on a bit part in a chess game of geopolitics.
So while governments stowed their officials in underground bunkers in places like Holmpton, Withernsea, to conduct affairs following the war, arranged for Nuclear Bombs and Cruise Missiles to be deployed, organised our Polaris missiles, they protested!!
Good for them! I don’t want to be fried either!
It hasn’t gone away! It’s just become quiet!
The nuclear shelters for our officials are much bigger, deeper, modern and sophisticated now. They are also Top Secret.
As a species I think we might well be quite insane!