End Times

You Should Be Scared of Nuclear War Again

The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from a Cold War-era nuclear missile treaty will put us all in renewed danger

Bryan Walsh
OneZero
Published in
6 min readAug 2, 2019

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Demonstrators with a Putin and Trump mask face each other with rocket models on Pariser Platz. Photo: picture alliance/Getty Images

MMutually Assured Destruction has a bad name. I mean that literally — all three of those words are terrifying. Put them together, and they mean…

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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.