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Taras Young, a historian who researches and writes about Britain’s preparations for nuclear attack, shares coping strategies
If the news about Ukraine has left you feeling sad and scared, you’re not alone. What’s known as “nuclear anxiety” has been around since the second world war – from the late 1950s (when the threat loomed so large that Kellogg’s gave away “atomic submarines” in Corn Flakes), to five years ago when North Korea began testing missiles. Can the past show us how to deal with it today? I asked historian Taras Young, author of Apocalypse Ready, which explores the ways governments ask citizens to handle disasters.
I’m already feeling better just talking to you, because it gives me perspective: we’ve been through this before, we can get through it again.People fall into one of two camps. They either grew up thinking about it, worrying about it, or they just ignored it. My folks never seemed to worry. So it comes down to the individual.
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