When I was a kid in 1983, The Day After was a made-for-TV movie that portrayed the advent of a nuclear World War III. It scared the crap out of literally everyone I knew and it seemed like a turning point. Where we had once talked about nuclear weapons as strategic negotiating chits, we began speaking of them as "never to be used" armaments that the world must eventually move away from. Maybe the changing public sentiment was reflected by the film, or maybe the film influenced the public sentiment. Either way, it was impactful.
Perhaps this documentary will have the impact that An Inconvenient Truth was meant to have a decade ago, but for which we were just not yet prepared as a society. Hopefully we now are.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/tv/before-the-flood/
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
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When I was a kid in 1983, I had already served 15 years responsible for the care and feeding of nuclear weapons on Polaris and Poseidon submarines in both the Atlantic, Pacific and Mediterranean waiting for the launch order that would mean our families were destroyed in a nuclear attack. Fortunately, deterrence and mutual assured destruction (MAD) is still working. We owe our existence today to the courage of one Soviet submarine officer who voted "NO" during a standoff during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The submarine nuclear launch order required the CO, XO and Political Officer to agree.
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