End Times

The Morning We Learned How to Destroy the World

Seventy-four years after the end of World War II, we’re still living with the existential risk of nuclear holocaust — and it all began on a patch of desert called the Trinity Site

Bryan Walsh
OneZero
Published in
11 min readAug 15, 2019

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Bryan Walsh
OneZero
Writer for

Journalist, author, dad. Former TIME magazine editor and foreign correspondent. Author of END TIMES, a book about existential risk and the end of the world.