DOMINIC SANDBROOK: A nuclear nightmare not felt for decades

Ever since the final days of the Second World War, when mushroom clouds rose above the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, mankind has lived in the shadow of nuclear war.

As a schoolboy in the 1980s, I vividly remember the paranoia of the decades that followed. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, I assumed those days were over.

But now, with 's chilling announcement that he is putting Russia's nuclear forces on 'special alert' against the West, we find ourselves once again in a world haunted by nightmares of Armageddon.

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