You might appreciate this panel discussion featuring Carl Sagan and Henry Kissinger: https://physicsworld.com/a/the-day-after-35-years-later-carl-sagan-and-hen

You might appreciate this panel discussion featuring Carl Sagan and Henry Kissinger: https://physicsworld.com/a/the-day-after-35-years-later-carl-sagan-and-henry-kissinger-on-nuclear-war/ https://physicsworld.com/a/the-day-after-35-years-later-carl... I’ve always been struck by the caliber of this broadcast and the audience engagement and questions. From a different time when public discourse on nuclear weapons was common. Perhaps part of the rising anxiety in society over the past decades is the suppression of the knowledge that the we live with loaded guns pointed at our heads. Sounds like an almost unhinged thing to say — but then again, the policy is called MAD after all.