What a nuclear war would really mean
A journalist does away with the jargon. And a classic from the Cold War era
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This Week Those Books is chock-full of crucial context — from fiction and non-fiction — to the shouty, doomscroll news cycle.
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The Big Story:
Donald Trump’s casual declaration of a return to US nuclear testing has prompted fears of a return to the Cold War era with its visions of Armageddon and theories of mutually assured destruction.
Our first book pick lays out the horrifying prospect:
An atomic bomb will kill tens of thousands of people, as did the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A thermonuclear bomb, if detonated on a city like New York or Seoul, will kill millions of people in a superheated flash.
We have two books. Read on
Originally published at https://medium.com
