Nuclear warning: Ryan White interviews Dr. Helen Caldicot.(Interview)

Canadian Dimension, March, 2006 by White, Ryan

CD In your recent book, New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex, you state, "Never, in the almost three decades that I have been campaigning against the use of nuclear weapons and nuclear power have I felt that the world is in so much danger." What kind of risks are we currently facing?

HC The same risks that we faced during the Cold War, namely that Russia and America still target each other with thousands of hydrogen bombs on hair-trigger alert. Meaning that they are all on their missiles ready to go with the press of a button from either Putin or Bush, who get only three minutes of decision time to decide whether or not to blow up the world.

The increased danger from the time of the Cold War is this: No one knows those...

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