nTerrifying and timely, this is a book everyone should read and heed - George Monbiot nUrgent, gripping and sobering, Six Minutes to Winter is a hair-raising wake-up call - David Wallace-Wells nPowerful and insightful. Although many have forgotten about nuclear weapons, we shouldnt n- Charles Oppenheimer n nThe world is currently closer to superpower conflict than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. World War III is a real possibility, and with 12,000 warheads in the arsenals of more than half a dozen countries, we are standing on a nuclear knife edge. n nDespite receiving very little attention, nuclear war is a far greater threat to humanitys immediate survival than climate change. While climate heating threatens humanity over many decades, nuclear war could destroy civilisation in just a few hours. A major missile exchange would mean months of near-total darkness, followed by a decade-long global nuclear winter that would destroy most life on Earth. Virtually everyone would starve in the resulting worldwide famine, and there would be no reliable refuge. n nWe are sleepwalking to Armageddon. There are no mass marches, no COPs, no nuclear Greta. But the climate experience teaches us that ignoring a problem is no solution, and that a worldwide mobilisation can work. Six Minutes to Winter presents an unflinching view of the nuclear nightmare, but also describes how weapons can be taken off hair-trigger alert and ultimately abolished altogether. If human civilisation is to survive long term, we have no alternative.n