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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Thursday,

February 1st. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. Last week, the country's

leading atomic scientists announced an update to the doomsday clock, the symbolic measure of how

close the world is to annihilation. Citing concerns about President Trump's attitude about nuclear proliferation, the team advanced

the clock to two minutes to midnight, the closest it's been since the early 50s.

This came after a leaked draft of the Pentagon's nuclear posture review revealed its proposal to greatly increase the U.S.

nuclear arsenal, adding weapons that are smaller and more precise.

On Tuesday, in his State of the Union address, Trump made an offhand remark about his administration's policy.

We must modernize and rebuild our nuclear arsenal,

hopefully never having to use it,

but making it so strong and so powerful

that it will deter any acts of aggression

by any other nation or anyone else.

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