With the Doomsday Clock set at 90 seconds to midnight, the US and Russia’s Cold War stand-off seems quaint in retrospect
The Doomsday Clock is the metaphorical device used to gauge the existential threat of nuclear destruction as well as the threats of climate change and biotechnology. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Getty
Doctor Odyssey’s core message: just imagine Pacey from Dawson’s Creek holding you tight and saying, ‘Shhh, it’s okay’ Alexander Glaser is a Princeton university professor and the winner of the American Physical Society’s 2025 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award for contributions to advance nuclear arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament verification. “The absolute number are lower but that doesn’t actually matter all that much,” says Glasser. “They’re much more accurate today. They’re much more reliable in terms of the capability to destroy targets in another country.
Former national security adviser to Jimmy Carter's US presidency Zbigniew Brzezinski. Photograph: Jim Young/Reuters Modern technology doesn’t necessarily improve the picture. “There are people in the United States who are arguing that we should be incorporating artificial intelligence into nuclear command and control.” He laughs darkly.Nowadays, the situation is more geopolitically complex and it’s hard to predict if a single nuclear strike would lead to more. “In 1980s it was clear it would be an all-out global thermonuclear war,” says Glaser.
In the meantime, non-nuclear countries are considering their options. “I was recently with a brilliant grad student in national security policy from South Korea, who said all of her friends want South Korea to have their own nuclear weapons,” says Schlosser. “After Trump’s presidency they don’t totally trust that the US would come to South Korea’s aid if North Korea used a nuclear weapon.
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