A nuclear nightmare not felt for decades... With the collapse of the Soviet Union, I assumed those days were over - now we find ourselves once again in a world haunted by nightmares of Armageddon, writes DOMINIC SANDBROOK
NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE IS VERY NEAR
Ever since the final days of the Second World War, when mushroom clouds rose above the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, mankind has lived in the shadow of nuclear war.
As a schoolboy in the 1980s, I vividly remember the paranoia of the decades that followed. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, I assumed those days were over.
But now, with Vladimir Putin's chilling announcement that he is putting Russia's nuclear forces on 'special alert' against the West, we find ourselves once again in a world haunted by nightmares of Armageddon.
Should we take Putin's nuclear threat seriously? Shocking as the last few days have been, I struggle to believe he would invite a full-scale war. But nobody who has read about the carnage at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where more than 200,000 civilians are thought to have been killed, can feel remotely complacent.
FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10558175/DOMINIC-SANDBROOK-nuclear-nightmare-not-felt-decades.html
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