Tick, tick… boom? Why we’re closer to midnight than ever
Jan 28, 2022
3 minutes
By Julian Borger WASHINGTON
On 24 October 1962, an American nuclear chemist, Harrison Brown, started to pen a guest editorial for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists just as the Cuban missile crisis reached its climax.
“I am writing on a plane en route from Los Angeles to Washington and for all I know this editorial … may never be published,” Brown said. “Never in history have people and nations been so close to death
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