Status Updates From 85 Seconds to Midnight: A P...

"What they might have said to each other, if better angels had been sitting on their shoulders, is something that we can imagine – and perhaps the history of the world might have been different."

'On 27 January 2026, the Doomsday Clock is set at 85 seconds to midnight, the closest the Clock has ever been to midnight in its history.'

'Truman burned alive hundreds of thousands of men, women and children for another miscalculation. This is how the atomic age began' (p.35)

Rovelli does not hold back with his argument, and whilst I disgree with some points about the origins of the Bomb, overall it is a very poignant argument against nuclear weapons.