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Nukes On The Loose! How Obama And Cameron Played A Video Game As Real Crisis Deepened
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Daily Mail
- Nuclear Security Summit leaders asked to play ‘nukes on the loose’ game
- It involved four three minutes videos based on fake nuclear crisis
- Leaders were asked to watch clips and then submit anonymous responses
- Asked whether they would keep crisis private or go public, how they would minimise civilians causalities and whether to work with other countries
- Answers were then used as a basis for a debate afterwards
By TAMARA COHEN
PUBLISHED: 20:48 EST, 25 March 2014 | UPDATED: 05:29 EST, 26 March 2014
Crimea annexed by the Kremlin, the rest of Ukraine at risk as Russian troops mass on its borders…
It is not as if the world’s leaders do not have enough real-life international problems to keep them busy.
Nevertheless, with the crisis deepening in the east, Barack Obama, David Cameron, Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping ended up playing a computer game dubbed ‘nukes on the loose’ at a conference this week.
The war game, the brainchild of the Dutch hosts of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) meeting in The Hague, revolves around a terrorist network planning to launch a ‘dirty bomb’ in a high-profile financial centre.
‘It could be the City of London, or Wall Street, Milan or anywhere,’ the 53 world leaders at the NSS were told.
