Intimations of world war three – the big one, nuclear Armageddon – didn’t arise yesterday. In December 2024, Newsweek published a map of the “safest US states to live during nuclear war”. Another expert noted that “even a ‘small’ nuclear war would ... kill at least a billion people”. “We are probably in the early days of World War III,” Sachs concluded. “I don’t think a World War III is likely,” he replied.

Source: The Times March 12, 2026 21:22 UTC