Nuclear War - A scenario, an absolute must read Jonathon Porritt

Posted: 26th May 2024

Every single person of influence here in the UK (and globally) absolutely ought to read Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War: A Scenario”. We somehow seem to have forgotten that we’re still living in a world which could be entirely destroyed (by design or by accident) by a nuclear war. At any point. Even Putin’s occasional flourish of his “big nuclear stick” seems to stir few fears – outside of a group of extraordinarily well-informed security and defence experts. I suspect that may have been Annie Jacobson’s motivation in writing “Nuclear War: A Scenario”. How have we become so complacent? Why is nuclear disarmament the poor cousin of any international security gathering – a ghost at every G20/G7 Summit? Why will nuclear disarmament barely feature in the manifestos of the major parties in the UK General Election – and, so much more importantly, in the presidential campaigns of either Biden or Trump?

Jonathon Porritt 24th May 2024

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