United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation
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The United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation (UKWMO) was a British organisation set up in 1957 to provide the authorities with data about nuclear explosions and with forecasts of likely fallout profiles across the country.
The UKWMO was funded by the Home Office but in the main used Royal Observer Corps (ROC) premises and personnel. It was on high alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October and November 1962. The organisation was wound up in November 1992.
It's emblem-of-arms was a pair of classic hunting horns crossing each-other, pointed upwards, with the enscrolled motto "Sound An Alarm", a title then used for a contemporary public information film.
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