Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It

‘Terrifying and timely ... a book everyone should read and heed’ - George Monbiot'Urgent, gripping and sobering ... a hair-raising wake-up call’ - David Wallace-Wells‘Powerful and insightful. - Charles Oppenheimer The world is currently closer to superpower conflict than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.World War III is a real possibility, and with 12,000 warheads in the arsenals of more than half a dozen countries, we are standing on a nuclear knife edge. Despite receiving very little attention, nuclear war is a far greater threat to humanity's immediate survival than climate change.While climate heating threatens humanity over many decades, nuclear war could destroy civilisation in just a few hours.A major missile exchange would mean months of near-total darkness, followed by a decade-long global nuclear winter that would destroy most life on Earth.Virtually everyone would starve in the resulting worldwide famine, and there would be no reliable refuge. We are sleepwalk