Those Lehrer videos are priceless. I was of course reminded of Randy Newman's "Political Science."
What's not so commonly known is that, even now, we are still only 20 minutes or so away from mass annihilation. The only changes I'm aware of are the reduction in warheads (we can only destroy the earth one zillion times over instead of ten zillion times.) The missiles, land based but even more sub based, are still pointed at enough folks to do the job. But somehow, no one seems to think it's true. They think it's all in the past. "Thank goodness that's all behind us!"
And it's not. We're living it everyday, only mostly in ignorance.
Those Lehrer videos are priceless. I was of course reminded of Randy Newman's "Political Science."
What's not so commonly known is that, even now, we are still only 20 minutes or so away from mass annihilation. The only changes I'm aware of are the reduction in warheads (we can only destroy the earth one zillion times over instead of ten zillion times.) The missiles, land based but even more sub based, are still pointed at enough folks to do the job. But somehow, no one seems to think it's true. They think it's all in the past. "Thank goodness that's all behind us!"
And it's not. We're living it everyday, only mostly in ignorance.
Yep, nuclear winter is still a thing, but even deployed military weaponry on US citizens is wrong.