The absolute horror of nuclear war seems to have fallen down the memory hole... To hear people total of " tactical" this and "battlefield" that...It's all bullshit. One spark ignites the flame...then we are dead or if not living in a world of horror.
We had a lovely old Japanese lacquered photo album at home...flick through it and you found my father's pictures of " Time magazine atomic bomb victim no 1" : the Japanese man's English advertising said on his stall where he sold various ( doubtless still radioactive) memorabilia to tourists...blast-impregnated shadows on various objects...flip the page and there he is from the back lifting his shirt to reveal his own shadow: where the skin on his own back was removed in the blast... Flip the page again...official blast photographs from Montebello and Christmas Island where my father and his friends were issued...um.. sunglasses as "protection" against the nuclear explosions before returning to sweat maintaining the ships boilers: one of which had to be removed on return apparently being "too radioactive..."

Turn a few pages...see your sister in a photograph with the pulling her hair down to cover the scarring on her face because she was born with half her jaw missing and a clever surgeon had the bright idea to replace it with one of her ribs so she could eat...

Let me say this: nuclear war does not end with the survivors: It is generational war. It destroys he children of the children. It should be unthinkable...it is insanity to try play with it in a fucking game of brinkmanship.