Several great Cold War novels and films, including "On the Beach," "Fail-Safe," and "Dr. Kennedy said, "even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth."
Putin contends the two atomic bombs the United States dropped on Japan to end World War II have "created a precedent."īut were they a precedent - or a warning? The horror over the deaths in Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed the world that any war deploying nuclear weapons would be more a suicide pact than a conflict. President Vladimir Putin says he will use "all systems available" to defend "the territorial integrity of our Motherland" - in other words, keep Russia's grip on the four eastern provinces of Ukraine he has annexed. As President Biden recently told Democratic donors, "For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we have a direct threat to the use of nuclear weapons." It was: "Best Place to Survive Nuclear War."įor the past generation, the threat of nuclear destruction has been overshadowed by fears of climate catastrophe, global disease outbreaks, terrorism, and the shattering of democracy.īut now it looms again. This week, Newsweek ran one of those, "Best Places in the U.S." articles, but it wasn't about the best local barbecue, towns for retirement, or trips to see fall foliage. Small notes in the news can sometimes shake you the most.
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