nuclear war

Seeking his counsel, Arjuna asks Krishna to reveal his universal form. Krishna obliges, and in verse 12 of the Gita he manifests as a sublime, terrifying being of many mouths and eyes. It is…

In some ways, it’s hard to understand how this misalignment happened. We created all this by ourselves, for ourselves.True, we’re by nature “carbon chauvinists,” as Tegmark put it: We like…

When wired heard that Christopher Nolan and his producer—and wife—Emma Thomas were coming out with a biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we were perplexed. At least for a moment. It is hard for…

Flattened cities, millions of people burnt to death, and yet more tortured by radioactive fallout. That harrowing future may seem outlandish to some, but only because no nation has detonated…

But let’s be honest: Most people, even in the moderate damage zone, won’t survive. Hardly anyone lives or works in nearly windowless reinforced-concrete buildings, nor in the vicinity of a…

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Putting a percentage on the likelihood of a nuclear disaster can feel icky—like you’re boiling down the immensity of human suffering into a spreadsheet. “I think what people dislike about…

This week, NATO is conducting its regular, long-planned nuclear strike exercise known as “Steadfast Noon" to practice deploying fighter jets used to carry nuclear weapons. And Russia is…

The one thing that all human civilizations have in common is that they end. For 10,000 years or so, that's been the common factor. You can make an argument that civilizations tend not to…

The rise of powerful new technology means that humanity must confront the risk of its own demise. The invention of nuclear weaponry, for example, has already shown just how quickly…