Once again we live in the Bomb's shadow .. God help all of us; GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT on the nightmare prospect of nuclear war as India and Pakistan square up to each other over Kashmir.(Features)

From: The Mirror (London, England) | Date: May 23, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT

EVER since I was born, months after the destruction of Hiroshima in 1945, I've lived in the shadow of the Bomb. We all have.

And once Russia acquired the Bomb in 1949, we lived in the shadow of nuclear war.

This was the one ghastly blight on an otherwise wonderful period of peace and prosperity, for most British people far and away the best time in their history.

So there was intense relief when Soviet Russia ...

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