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Dave Levitan
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Deputy editor, Splinter, covering climate and more. Previous: The Messenger/Grid, bylines all over before that. Author: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (2017, WW Norton). Davelevitan{at}gmail.com
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This is a remarkable piece of opinion reporting, a *deeply* disturbing look at the details of the US's virtually undiscussed descent into a vast new nuclear arms race. Spending trillions of dollars, basically unchecked, just to increase the odds of ending the world. [🎁]This is a remarkable piece of opinion reporting, a *deeply* disturbing look at the details of the US's virtually undiscussed descent into a vast new nuclear arms race. Spending trillions of dollars, basically unchecked, just to increase the odds of ending the world. [🎁]

Opinion | The Staggering Price You’re Paying for America’s Nuclear Makeover
Opinion | The Staggering Price You’re Paying for America’s Nuclear Makeover

The $1.7 trillion overhaul is already underway.

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The global nuclear weapons situation has always been crazy-making to me. "Cooler heads prevailing" means only being able to utterly wipe out humanity like a dozen times instead of a hundred.The global nuclear weapons situation has always been crazy-making to me. "Cooler heads prevailing" means only being able to utterly wipe out humanity like a dozen times instead of a hundred.

Last century, the world watched in horror as the number of nuclear weapons around the globe rocketed from approximately 3,000 warheads in 1955 to more than 70,000 by the late 1980s. It took time for nuclear nations to grasp the mutual vulnerability, the financial investment and general insanity of the arms race. Cooler heads prevailed. International treaties were signed. Now there are an estimated 12,000 nuclear weapons in the world.
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Seems like a global 'Eat or Be Eaten' situation & no one's willing to be the 1st to say "I'm out..not interested anymore"

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Dave Levitan
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Deputy editor, Splinter, covering climate and more. Previous: The Messenger/Grid, bylines all over before that. Author: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (2017, WW Norton). Davelevitan{at}gmail.com
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