Introduction

The prospect of our blundering into a nuclear war, either by accident or political miscalculation is probably the greatest risk we face. And its danger is compounded by the fact that almost no one appears to be thinking about this risk. This has been a chapter in human history of such reckless stupidity that it's been a kind of moral oblivion. We have forgotten about the situation we are in every day of our lives. The enormity of our error here is stupefying. It's like we were convinced seventy five years ago to rig all our homes and buildings to explode, and then we just got distracted by other thingsr Most of us live each day totally unaware that the...