The Queen had a speech ready if there was a nuclear strike on the UK during the Cold War

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The speech was drawn up after fears of an apocalyptic conflict between the US and Russia. The address was just one of many imagined scenarios mocked up in Whitehall, The Sun reported. Another included the arrest of 1980s Labour leader Michael Foot at a peace rally.

The script said: “Not for a single moment did I imagine that this solemn and awful duty would one day fall to me. “We all know that the dangers facing us today are greater by far than at any time in our long history. “The enemy is not the soldier with his rifle nor even the airman prowling the skies above our cities and towns but the deadly power of abused technology. “But whatever terrors lie in wait for us all, the qualities that have helped to keep our freedom intact twice already during this sad century will once more be our strength." READ MORE: Meghan and Harry REMOVED from Kensington Palace Twitter

The speech was drawn up after fears of an apocalyptic conflict between the US and Russia

Curator Mark Dunton told The Sun: “The idea that the fates of millions were being decided by these little sweeps of a pencil is quite extraordinary.” “The exhibition is part of the National Archive’s Cold War Revealed season. “We want people to think, ‘How would I have coped if the worst had happened?’ “The pervasive threat of nuclear war impacted everyday life for millions.”

The address was just one of many imagined scenarios mocked up in Whitehall

The Protect and Survive exhibition in London includes further documents from the time. One of which is Sir Winston Churchill plans to divide Europe with Russian tyrant Josef Stalin after World War Two. The 1944 plans showed parts of Bulgaria, Greece, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Romania that the Soviets or Britain would control. Sir Winston called it his “naughty document” and later admitted the plan could seem “callous”.