Trump dreams of a Maga empire – but he's more likely to leave us a nuclear hellscape

In 1965, the British government blocked the BBC from broadcasting The War Game, a pseudo-documentary film it had commissioned depicting just what a nuclear attack on the UK would entail. The film, the government judged, was simply too "horrifying" for the public. Two decades after that, The War Game finally aired, prior to the release of the 1984 film Threads, which, in imagining the aftermath of a nuclear attack on the UK, was the first movie to deal with the scientific reality of nuclear winter. When I was 11, I had nightmares for a few weeks after seeing a trailer…