Bunker rats and tunnel moles

The comic absurdity and profound evil of imagining armageddon

ANNIE JACOBSEN’S NEW BOOK Nuclear War: A Scenario - something between a non-fiction polemic and a trashy airport novel - invites us to imagine the intimate details of a world ravaged by atomic apocalypse. The deeper she travels into the nuclear security state, the more its operations take on both the hues of death and the colours of comedy. Stanley Kubr…