Sixty years ago, a top secret experiment in the New Mexico desert ushered in the Atomic Age. Today, the Doomsday Clock stands at seven minutes to midnight. 16,000 nuclear warheads remain operationally deployed, most of them still targeted at the U.S. or Russia. More than a decade after the fall of the Soviet Union, our respective nuclear forces are still on alert. I don’t quite get the strategic reasoning for continuing to aim our missiles at each other. I’m pretty sure the Russians aren’t planning on invading anytime soon.
Speaking of, remember that movie Red Dawn? Remember when that dad imprisoned in a labor camp yells out “AVENGE ME!” to his sons from behind a chain link fence? Man, that was bad. I’m gonna add it to my Netflx queue right now.
