The New Nuclear Age: Why Today's Global Threat Is Worse Than The Cold War

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"Deterrence is not really an accurate science... If you get that calculus wrong, then the outcome could be something like the destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but many times over." 81 years after two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear proliferation has made global nuclear strategy fundamentally more fragile, says Dr Marion Messmer, programme director for international security at Chatham House. Dr Marion Messmer was speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio. Listen live every Sunday morning, 10am-1pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/

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