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That tussle for Cuba, between the US and the USSR, flourished into the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 – during which time it was quite reasonable to go to bed at night wondering if you’d see the morning. John F Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev c 1960. But I didn’t have a clue about the nuts and bolts of the matter – the fact that a nuclear war would probably be preceded by at least a small amount of conventional war, and even then, commercial airlines wouldn’t be equipped with warheads.

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I was all over the skin peeling, the radiation sickness, the nuclear winter, the relative horrors of being at the centre of the blast radius (ideal) or on its outer edges (you would limp on for a few weeks with your teeth falling out of your gums, creeping toward death). Thanks to Raymond Briggs’s When the Wind Blows, the brutal 1984 apocalypse drama Threads and various clergymen-orators at CND marches, I knew a huge amount about the impact of a nuclear blast. The first time, I would have been about 10. Last week, due to the war in Ukraine, I felt that same freezing feeling for the first time in almost 40 years. It was an absolutely pure terror, a literal chill darting around my body, from my heart to the balls of my feet.

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general, World Health Organisation, 58 Darren Anderton, footballer, England (1994-2001), 51 Jessica Biel, actress, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Total Recall (2012), 41 Sir Nicolas Bratza, High Court judge (1998-2012) and president of the European Court of Human Rights (2011-2012), 78 Lord (Peter) Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, secretary of state for Northern Ireland (1989-92), 89 Charlie Brooker, journalist and broadcaster, Black Mirror (2011-19), 52 Charlie Brooks, children’s author, 60 Camila Cabello, singer-songwriter, Havana (2018), 26 David Carnegie, Duke of Fife, 62 Prof Brian Cox, physicist and broadcaster, Universe (2021), 55 David Davies, swimmer, two-time Olympic medallist (2004, 2008), 38 Bonnie Dunbar, engineer and astronaut (space flights 1985-98), 74 Rod Hackney, architect, president, Royal Institute of British Architects (1987-89), 81 Lord (Tony) Hall of Birkenhead, chairman, National Gallery (2019-21), director-general of the BBC (2013-20), 72 Stephanie Hilborne, chief executive, Women in Sport, The Wildlife Trusts (2004-19), 55 Andrew Triggs Hodge, rower, three-time Olympic gold medallist (2008, 2012, 2016) and four-time world champion, 44 Keely Hodgkinson, athlete, Olympic (2020) and world championship (2022) 800m silver medallist, 21 Ronan Keating, pop singer and TV presenter, The One Show (since 2021), 46 George Miller, film-maker, the Mad Max film series, 78 Prof Ole Petersen, physiologist, 80 Sir Mark Prescott, racehorse trainer, 75 Miranda Richardson, actress, Blackadder (1983-89), 65 Major General Michael Scott DSO, commanded the Scots Guards during the Falklands conflict, 82 Jon Sparkes, chief executive, Unicef UK, Crisis (2014-21), 55 Jennifer Warnes, singer-songwriter, Up Where We Belong (1982), 76 Fatima Whitbread, javelin thrower, world champion (1987), 62.A cross the years of 1983 and 84, I thought every plane going over my head contained a nuclear bomb that would be dropped, or not dropped, according to the mood of the pilot.

From March 13-14, 1943, the ghetto was liquidated, with about 2,000 people killed during the operation and more than 5,000 taken to concentration camps in 1966 the BBC announced plans to broadcast TV programmes in colour, overseen by the BBC2 controller David Attenborough, and starting with Wimbledon on July 1, 1967, of a men’s singles match between Cliff Drysdale and Roger Taylor.

The craze spread to other colleges, with one student reported to have digested 89 goldfish in one sitting in 1941 the Jewish ghetto in Krakow, Poland, was created by Nazi Germany, sealing in between 15,000 and 20,000 people by March 20, 1941. In other words, the Caliphate is now somewhat in the position of a crystal which has been dissolved in a glass of water” in 1939 Lothrop Withington Jr, a Harvard University student, became the first person on record to swallow a live goldfish. The Times reported that the “abstract notion of Caliphate is said to be contained in the abstract notion of government. Georges Bizet, its composer, died three months later, aged 36 in 1924 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, president of Turkey, abolished the caliphate (the Islamic leadership of the Ottoman sultans). In 1875 the premiere of Carmen at the Opéra Comique in Paris was poorly received, with one critic saying it was “a flop, a disaster”.

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