PD Smith

Keeper of the Snails

17 July 2009 | Doomsday Men | Post a comment

Clare Dud­man, author of Wegen­er’s Jig­saw and 98 Rea­sons for Being, has writ­ten a won­der­ful piece on my book Dooms­day Men for her blog, Keep­er of the Snails. Here’s an extract:

“I sup­pose the sto­ry of the Dooms­day Men has been a con­stant back­ground to my life. Most of the time I have suc­cess­ful­ly pushed it to the back of my mind because it seemed too fright­en­ing and too impos­si­ble to be true. But read­ing the Dooms­day Men has forced me to con­front it and under­stand. Recent­ly the threat of weapons of mass destruc­tion has been over­shad­owed by nat­ur­al plagues, glob­al warm­ing and eco­nom­ic cri­sis, but it is still there. It can still hap­pen.”

You can read the rest here and also watch Peter Watkin­s’s The War Game (1965) .

Comments are closed.