Closer to Midnight: The Doomsday Clock and the Threat of Nuclear War
Jan 25, 2018•12 min
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Episode description
The accidental missile alert in Hawaii earlier this month made real for 38 terrifying minutes the vague, low-level dread that permeates American life today: Nuclear war seems closer and more real than it has in a generation. Even the pope—not exactly a fear-monger—said last week that the world now stood at “the very limit.
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