Former politician and soldier HenryBoltonOBE swept in with another crushing swipe, telling him: “Stick to football, Gary.
“You clearly don’t grasp how a nuclear deterrent works, what it is meant to deter, and know nothing about strategic military matters.”
Clearly believing that ignorance would be bliss if it meant he was wrong and the situation was less serious than he feared, Gary shrugged off the insult with a simple: “I hope you’re right.”
He added: “A madman with nukes worries me though.”
Gary has since deleted the tweet that originally sparked the controversy, explaining: “It was too ambiguous & therefore misinterpreted.
“To be clear it was a general wish that nukes didn’t exist anywhere.
“They may have stopped wars, although hypothetical, thus far, but it only needs one madman to launch one, & we’re all screwed.”