Merkel miffed at Barack Obama and David Cameron 'nuclear war game'

I thought this was a spoof. But they really did it?!!!

"David Cameron joined Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and Xi Jinping and other world leaders to play a "nukes on the loose" war game to see how they would cope with a terrorist nuclear attack.

The German chancellor grumbled at being asked to play games and take tests with the Prime Minister, US and Chinese presidents around a table with dozens of heads of state at a nuclear summit in The Hague. Her complaints were overruled because Mr Obama was keen on the idea and in on the surprise.

In the war game, played out by actors in a series of short films, a terrorist attack with an atomic "dirty bomb" takes place in the financial heart of an unnamed but Western metropolis. "It could be the City of London, or Wall Street, Milan or anywhere", summit leaders were told...."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/10721186/Merkel-miffed-at-Barack-Obama-and-David-Cameron-nuclear-war-game.html

Obama's unbelievable! A world leader and he's inviting other world leaders to play computer games at a major summit! What an immature moron.. and he's got the fate of the world in his hands (or joystick I should say). Does he run world affairs as if it's an X-box game?

it's good to know what our great leaders get up to and that our money is well spent..

Me suspects Angela lost. What was her score?   

Our police and other emergency services train for this.

Our armed forces train for this.

Why wouldn't our Prime Ministers train for it.

Can I join their clan? What server are they on? Are they PS4 or Xbox fanbois?

" But not everyone was happy about playing the war game with the grumbling led by Mrs Merkel who was unimpressed with role-playing at such a high-powered gathering. Mr Obama, who helped plan the game, overrode the moaning. He had Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, his lead national security adviser on the issue, helpfully by his side.
"Leaders had their doubts about participation on their own without their expert civil servants. It was about discussion and problem solving without leaders relying on written statements to read out. At the end the leaders were more enthusiastic," said a spokesman for the summit."

OB cheated by the sounds of it, but no surprise there............