News stories are weighing nuclear risk as experts muse on the possibility of global warfare<\/p>\n
Intimations of world war three \u2013 the big one, nuclear Armageddon \u2013 didn\u2019t arise yesterday. But they got more urgent when Donald Trump was elected the second time. In December 2024, Newsweek<\/a> published a map of the \u201csafest US states to live during nuclear war\u201d. The article was not reassuring. \u201cNowhere is truly \u2018safe\u2019\u201d from such consequences as \u201ccontamination of food and water supplies and prolonged radiation exposure\u201d, said the senior policy director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Another expert noted that \u201ceven a \u2018small\u2019 nuclear war would … kill at least a billion people\u201d.<\/p>\n And since 28 February, when the US and Israel began their bombardment of Iran, chatter about a world war has spiked<\/a>, with everyone from anonymous social media users to Harvard policy wonks weighing in.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" News stories are weighing nuclear risk as experts muse on the possibility of global warfare Intimations of world war three \u2013 the big one, nuclear Armageddon \u2013 didn\u2019t arise yesterday. But they got more urgent when Donald Trump was elected the second time. In December 2024, Newsweek published a map of the \u201csafest US states … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}