Hedvig Ekerwald takes a close look at Alva Myrdal's masterpiece The Game of Disarmament: How the United States and Russia Run the Arms Race, underscoring how relevant the book is still today, almost fifty years after its publication. She exposes some of the lingering vulnerabilities of Europe as a “battlefield” to ban nuclear weapons, often caught in the quagmire of an incessant arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Considering what is happening in Europe today—the war in Ukraine, and the tensions between NATO and Russia—this seems almost like a nightmarish case of déjà vu. Of note, Dr. Ekerwald also pays close attention to the risks stemming from conventional, as well as biological and chemical weapons. Yet again, these risks are associated with warfare and conflict, and are as pertinent today as they were fifty years ago at the height of the Cold War.