Alex Ward, VOX: This is exactly how a nuclear war would kill you
This is how the world ends — not with a bang, but with a lot of really big bombs.
Matthew Kroenig has witnessed firsthand the growing fear that nuclear war is imminent.
A professor at Georgetown University, he’s taught an undergraduate course on nuclear weapons and world politics for the past decade. He always asks the same question on the last day: How many of his students think they’ll see nuclear weapons used in their lifetime?
For many years, no more than one student would raise their hand. That made sense, he told me, because in those days, “talking about nuclear war was like talking about dinosaurs — it’s just something from the past that won’t be something in our future.”
But the past couple of years have been different. When he asked that question again this spring, roughly 60 percent of his students raised their hands. What’s more, he agrees with them. “If I had to bet at least one nuclear weapon would be used in my lifetime,” says the 40-year-old Kroenig, “my bet would be yes.”
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WNU Editor: I am one who has always had a fear of nuclear war. Even when the Soviet Union collapsed. And I am also one who does not believe that the U.S. and Russia would not start such a conflict .... even with the high tensions that exist today between both countries. My fear is what other countries may do, and how their conflicts may escalate into a nuclear exchange. India and Pakistan have always been on the top of my list, and the unpredictability of North Korea a close second.