ospalh reviewed Nukespeak by Wilson, Andrew (Comedia/Minority Press Group, #9)
Nukespeak is the official language of nuclear war. It dehumanises and legitimates the arms race …
From the ’80s for the ’80s.
3 stars
Some books are timeless, or at least cald timeless. This isn’t one of them. Sure, the ICBM’s are still there, at least some of them, but even with all of Putin’s sabre-rattling, the threat of MAD isn’t as acute. Also, the media landscape is just completely unlike the one that this over 40 year old book criticizes. All in all, quite irrelevant nowadays, except as a part of history.