The Doomsday Clock is an internationally recognized design that conveys how close we are to destroying our civilization with dangerous technologies of our own making. First and foremost among these are nuclear weapons, but the dangers include climate-changing technologies, emerging... Read More
Ronald E. Powaski, a professor of history at Cleveland State University, is the author o/Return to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999 (2000).