Whicker, Brian

Whicker, Brian

Brian Whicker

1 November 2010Review

Astron Media & Disarmament & Security Centre; 2nd edition, 2010; 272pp; £17.99; available from INLAP/WCP UK, 67 Summerheath Rd, Hailsham, Sussex BN27 3D, UK. Please make cheques payable to INLAP/WCP UK.

The dogma of deterrence is now so deeply ingrained that the national corruption implicit in the willingness to murder the innocent is ignored. Robert Green dares to differ. For many years he was an aircraft bombardier who, if ordered, would have dropped a UK nuclear bomb near St Petersburg, causing “appallingly indiscriminate casualties and long-term poisonous effects from radioactive fallout” as well as destroying a beautiful ancient capital.

Luckily, he has seen the error of his…