Since its creation by the same scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project - which produced the world's first nuclear bomb - the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the clock’s hands back and forth to symbolize imminent danger to world security. The last time the clock was this close to catastrophe was in 1953, when the Soviet Union tested its first hydrogen bomb. In fact, the Doomsday Clock - a countdown created by a group of scientists to “warn the public about how close we are to destroying our world” - reads just two minutes to midnight. Some nuclear experts say that today the threat of a worldwide meltdown is the worst its been since the darkest, most dangerous days of the Cold War. Related: In South Korea’s war panic economy, sales thrive on nuclear angstīut the danger is global. A lot of Hubbard's clients are in Asia and the Middle East - places where the threat of a nuclear attack still feels as visceral as it did to the US in the 1960s. Ron says he sold a shelter a month when he started out in 2011. But for Ron Hubbard, president of Atlas Survival Shelters, business is … booming. This season, the podcast digs into backroom negotiations and political ploys, and asks: Is American foreign policy doing its job? Listen above and subscribe to the podcast to hear the whole story.ĭirections on how to prep a fallout shelter may sound like something out of a 1960s pamphlet. Things That Go Boom is a co-production of PRX and Inkstick Media, and is a partner of PRI's The World.
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