Fiona Harvey

It can involve competition over resources.

So if a country neighboring you dies,

is having a food crisis and you are worried about your own food supplies, then you could quite easily have a conflict there.

There could be conflict over resources such as water.

If you're in an area where there's drought and that drought is increasing, you might look at your neighbor's water supplies or your neighbor might try to hoard the water supplies before they reach you.

There's all kinds of potential for conflict here.

And what this report is saying is that these risks are real and the potential for civil war and for war between states and potentially war among nuclear armed states is something that we need to take very seriously.

We are pretty sure that the report was suppressed by Number 10 Dining Street.

Suppressed?

Yeah.

This report was scheduled to come out, and it wasn't a secret that it was coming out, but they decided not to publish it.

There could be several reasons for that.

They haven't gone public with those reasons.

But it seems like they thought that the report was dynamite.

And of course it is.

If you've got the people who are supposed to be warning you about national security threats, threats that could involve military mobilization if necessary, then you need to take that seriously.

And I think perhaps the government felt they didn't really have answers

For, you know, if journalists came along and said, well, the report says we're in danger here, what are you going to do about it?

And they perhaps didn't feel they had answers to that.

So the government received requests to publish the report under the Freedom of Information Act from several sources.