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Letter: On the enduring threat of nuclear annihilation (2)

Published 11 June 2025

From John Bailey, Blackwater, Hampshire, UK

While Lynas’s hopes and wishes are admirable, with Vladimir Putin threatening the use of nuclear weapons and Donald Trump promising to “drill baby, drill”, I fear that the Fermi paradox is secure in its implication that technological civilisations tend to destroy themselves in short order, and that nuclear war and climate change are inevitable. Maybe we should accept this and enjoy ourselves while the going is good.

Issue no. 3547 published 14 June 2025

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