75 years ago today. If pressing a button entailed the risk of destroying all life on earth—what odds would be too high? Anything more than 0? Since the dawn of the Doomsday era in the 1960s we have faced that risk every day. What are the odds of avoiding that for another 50 yrs?
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75 years ago at 5:29 a.m. on 7/16 1945 scientists gathered in the desert of NM to witness the first A-bomb test, code-named Trinity. The countdown began, followed by a burst of white light and a fireball that seemed to transform the sky. One of them thought, “Fermi was right.”
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