The Australian who 'saved the world'
15 October 2016
Des Ball, who persuaded the White House and the Pentagon that a nuclear war was unwinnable, had a lasting influence on Asian affairs
Australian academic and military strategist Des Ball – whose work former US president Jimmy Carter once said had “saved the world” – died last week after a long battle with cancer.
Tall and imposing and iconoclastic in an antipodean way, the bearded Ball passed away in Canberra on Wednesday aged 69. Despite his five-year battle with incurable cancer he continued to research and publish up until his death.
Read full article The Australian who ‘saved the world’ published in Bangkok Post.
