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Closer to Midnight: The Doomsday Clock and the Threat of Nuclear War

Published: Jan. 25, 2018, 4:31 p.m.

The accidental missile alert in Hawaii earlier this month made real for 38 terrifying minutes the vague, low-level dread that permeates American life today: Nuclear war seems closer and more real than it has in a generation. Even the pope\u2014not exactly a fear-monger\u2014said last week that the world now stood at \u201cthe very limit.