4 d. ago These are three UK places to avoid if WW3 breaks out and stay away from the coast

Former US Air Force nuclear specialist has warned which UK places to avoid in the event of World War 3, after Russia issued a chilling warning that NATO strikes could lead to full-scale nuclear war

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4 d. ago 'I was Air Force's nuclear specialist – avoid these three UK areas if WW3 erupts'

A former US Air Force nuclear specialist has warned which UK places to avoid in the event of World War 3, after Russia issued a chilling warning that NATO strikes could lead to full-scale nuclear war

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1 week ago It was my late mother’s birthday – and I spent it exactly as she would have wanted | Zoe Williams

I worried about nuclear war throughout my childhood, partly because it was the 80s, and partly because we were always demonstrating against it. On this important day, I knew where I needed to be ...It would have been my late mother’s birthday last Monday, and because I am either astronomically stupid or fathomlessly wise, I elected to spend it at a public meeting about nuclear disarmament. I’d call it a blast from the past, except I feel superstitious about introducing explode-y words too near the nuclear topic.I spent my entire childhood worrying about nuclear war, partly because it was the 80s, and everyone did, and partly because we spent our lives demonstrating against it. We had “Protest and Survive” stickers everywhere, in droll parody of the public information booklet “Protect and Survive”, along with “Nuclear Power? No Thanks”. We were also early adopters of climate change anxiety, while fiercely against the closure of coalmines. If you’re wondering where we expected to get ...

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2 w. ago Why nuclear war is closer than ever: That's the chilling verdict of historian SERHII PLOKHY who reveals the FORTY countries which could blow the world apart... and the timebomb that could trigger ash

I was born and have lived my entire life under the threat of universal extermination that followed that summer's day in 1945 when, in the New ­Mexico desert, the first nuclear bomb was exploded.

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2 w. ago Melania Trump tells soldiers AI 'machines' will replace them in 'dystopian' speech

The USA's First Lady gave a speech evoking the robot uprising of the Terminator films when she spoke to marines, saying AI will transform war more than any technology since nuclear weapons

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on a new nuclear age: great powers should not restock a house of dynamite | Editorial

Donald Trump’s remarks on resuming nuclear testing have highlighted the risks. Proliferation must not be considered inevitableWhen Eisaku Satō, a former prime minister of Japan, received the Nobel peace prize in 1974 after committing his country to not making nuclear bombs, owning them or allowing them on its territory, he assured the audience: “I have no doubt that this policy will be pursued by all future governments.”Yet last week, Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s new prime minister, declined to say whether the country that understands the cost of nuclear war better than any other would stand by its commitment – reflecting the bleak broader outlook. Eighty years after the US dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima, incinerating tens of thousands of people, and almost 40 after Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan seriously discussed nuclear abolition in Reykjavik, the spectre looms once more. Last month, Donald Trump ordered the US military to match other countries’ nuclear weapons testing. Continu...

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3 w. ago Haunting vision of UK after nuclear war with warlords roaming streets & MPs scrambling to £126million secret bunker

WITH nowhere to hide, Britain would have just minutes to prepare for the total devastation of a cataclysmic nuclear strike. But what would the UK look like after ground zero? Here, former British Army colonel and intelligence officer Philip Ingram paints a chilling picture of the nightmarish reality facing the country in the aftermath of...

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