Nuclear stars in the right orbit

February 4, 2010

By David Gardner in London

Twenty years after the end of the cold war, nuclear weapons have been supplanted as an engine of public anxiety by worries over global warming, virus pandemics and terrorist attacks. Yet the threat of nuclear weapons – about 23,000 of them with a combined blast capacity equal to 150,000 Hiroshimas – is a threat to humanity at least equal to climate change.

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