Today in Labor History February 16, 1963: A British antiwar activist group, called The Spies for Peace, broke into a secret UK government bunker, stole classified documents and published them. These documents revealed that the government was preparing for a thermonuclear war in which they knew the general population would be annihilated, while at the same time building a network of bunkers to protect key government officials. Several people were arrested for the break-in, but none of The Spies were ever identified. The Spies for Peace were associated with the Committee of 100, a Direct Action activist organization formed in 1960 by philosopher, mathematician and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell and others.

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