Hey, bear in mind worry of nuclear conflict? Very massive within the ’80s. Properly, due to Vladimir Putin, it is again. However is it a passing fad or believable hazard?
Russian President Vladimir Putin (Picture: AAP/AP/Gavriil Grigorov/Kremlin)
All of a sudden, that very Twentieth-century danger of nuclear conflict has elbowed its approach again to centre stage, desirous to go together with all these different existential threats we’ve been grappling with — like world pandemics, the local weather disaster, and rising post-fascist authoritarianism.
Within the 30-odd years for the reason that finish of the Chilly Warfare wound again these massive strategic stockpiles that threatened mutual destruction, it appears we’ve forgotten the menace nuclear conflict poses, even down right here in Australia.
It’s proving remarkably laborious to squeeze the nuclear story into Australia’s information cycle, with the will-they-won’t-they tax cuts taking over a lot oxygen. And tougher nonetheless, as a result of neither of the foremost events thinks it has something to realize by encouraging the dialog.
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Originally published at Gold Coast News HQ
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