100 Seconds To Midnight: The Dissonance and Madness of Our Time, by Rainer Shea

"XX-34 BADGER" atmospheric nuclear test - April 1953

Image by The Official CTBTO Photostream via Flickr

by Rainer Shea
Writer, Dandelion Salad
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February 1, 2021

Something feels bizarre about living in the current era, the era in which the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists just concluded that we’re metaphorically 100 seconds away from the extinction of humanity. This strange feeling has been present for a while now, going back to when the Bulletin’s “Doomsday Clock” reached 2 minutes to midnight in January of 2018 for the first time since 1953.

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