Two Minutes To Midnight, The TLS

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Post date 21st May 2018
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An essay for the Times Literary Supplement about two British nuclear war films, Threads and The War Game

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/two-minutes-midnight-nuclear-war/

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