The Doomsday Threat: On the Brink of World War III

In August 1945, at the very end of World War II, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, instantly killing nearly 200,000 people. Roughly 80 years later, no other nuclear weapons have been used during warfare - despite several close calls that could have resulted in a doomsday scenario. In late 2024 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihan Hidankyo, a Japanese collective of atomic survivors working for decades to rid the world of nuclea...