Letters to the Editor: We can make a difference to the climate

Hiroshima following the dropping of the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945. Picture: Crown copyright / Imperial War Museum / PA

I re-read The Guns of August recently. A superb book. Apparently, US president John F Kennedy quoted from it at Ex-Comm meetings in the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

The book describes the instigating events and the chaotic early stages of the First World War. This was a sophisticated and prosperous internationalised world.