There Is a New Urgency to the Threat of Nuclear Annihilation
NOVANEWS
By Helen Caldicott
A Hyunmoo II ballistic missile is fired during an exercise in South Korea on September 4, 2017. South Korea's military says it conducted a live-fire exercise simulating an attack on North Korea's nuclear test site, in response to the latter nation's latest nuclear test. (Photo: South Korea Defense Ministry via NUR)
In the following excerpt from her introduction to Sleepwalking to Armageddon, pioneering anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott explains why nuclear catastrophe is still a very real and pressing danger to humanity.
Despite Donald Trump's vows to seal the US border and eradicate ISIS, the real terrorists of the world today are the United States and Russia. They possess 94 percent of the nuclear weapons on the planet, and they hold the r...