Witold Nazarewicz

2 months ago | physicstoday.scitation.org | Witold Nazarewicz |Toni Feder |Lindsay McKenzie

In a time of nuclear escalation, including Russia hinting it might use nuclear weapons, says Karen Hallberg, “the situation is much riskier than anytime during the Cold War, except maybe the Cuban missile crisis.” The threshold of nuclear confrontation is at an all-time low, says the theoretical physicist at the Balseiro Institute in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina. “The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is closer to midnight than ever.