Nigel Calder was born on December 3, 1931 in London, England as Nigel David McKail Richie Calder. He was a writer, known for The Comet Is Coming! (1981), Nuclear Nightmares: The Wars That Must Never Happen (1979) and The Great Global Warming Swindle (2007). He was married to Elizabeth Palmer. He died on June 25, 2014 in Crawley, Sussex, England.