When was the last time you thought about the prospect of nuclear war?

I mean seriously thought about it and had even a semblance of an appropriate emotional

response.

Let me just think about it.

It's as though you've lived your whole life in a house that has been rigged to explode.

And it's as rigged now as at any point in the last 75 years.

In fact the doomsday clock was just advanced closer to midnight than it has been at any

point in the last 75 years.

It now reads 100 seconds to midnight.

Now whether you put much significance in that warning, just take a moment to consider

that the people who focus on this problem are as worried now as they've ever been.

But do you think about this?

If I were to ask how long it's been since you worried that you might have some serious

illness or that your kids might, or how long has it been since you've worried about being

the victim of crime or worried about dying in a plane crash, it probably hasn't been

that long.

Might have happened last week even.

But I would wager that very few people listening to this podcast have spent any significant

time feeling the implications of what is manifestly true.

All of us are living under a system of self annihilation that is so diabolically unstable

that we might stumble into a nuclear war based solely on false information.

In fact, this has almost happened on more than one occasion.

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