When I was ten years old, nuclear war seemed a real possibility. I knew U.S. relations with the Soviet Union were fraught through occasional glimpses …
‘Fail Safe’ Reminds Us Doomsday Is Only A Few Clicks Away
Netflix options Hanna Jameson’s dystopian thriller
… for the truth about a girl who has been murdered in his Swiss hotel in the aftermath of a nuclear war that has destroyed most of the Western world.”.
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It’s been apparent for years that a global biological pandemic is the biggest single threat, other than a strategic nuclear war, to the health and economy …
Anti-nuclear author Gudrun Pausewang dies
Anti-nuclear author Gudrun Pausewang dies … which depicts life in a small town in Germany where a nuclear attack takes place in a Cold War context.
33 Million on Lockdown in Chinese Cities as Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads
The clock is a symbolic timekeeper that tracks the likelihood of nuclear war and other existential threats. It now stands closer to catastrophe than at any …
Gathering for Peace and Justice at Sacred Heart Feb. 15
The theme for the day is The Doomsday Clock: Threats to Humanity from Nuclear War and Climate Change. Registration is at 8:30 a.m. The program …
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… of the Atomic Scientists, the clock uses minutes to midnight as a measure of humanity’s proximity to existential cataclysm, such as nuclear war or …
Doomsday Clock Moves to 100 Seconds Before Midnight Due to Threats of Nuclear War and …
That’s the closest the clock has moved to the apocalypse since it was first started in 1947 to warn of the dangers of nuclear war, BBC News reported.
Column: As doomsday looms and impeachment progresses, departed PBS newsman Jim Lehrer’s …
By that metaphorical measure of the planet’s human-made perils — climate change, nuclear war and cyber warfare — we’re a minute and 40 seconds …
Flashback: Secret experiments in a Cook County preserve aided atomic bomb efforts — and left …
… at the 19-acre plot known as Site A. It was part of the Manhattan Project, the federal government’s nuclear development program during World War II.