Nick Bostrom on Cold War Risks: BBC Website

Submitted by Seán O’Heigeartaigh on Thu, 16/02/2012 - 17:20

Professor Nick Bostrom is interviewed regarding the risks that used to be associated with nuclear weapons and mutually assured distruction in an article published on the BBC News's website today.
"The fear of nuclear war has diminished partly because the risk has receded significantly with the end of the Cold War," says Nick Bostrom, director of Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute. "But another factor might be simple changes in risk fashion - it becoming more popular recently to worry about global warming, for example."

The article is available here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17026538