Les Simpson

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In 1914 a US president harshly condemned a tiny bomb or two dropped by a lone prop plane. That’s a mere twenty-six years before the Luftwaffe was bombing London day and night during the Blitz, and three decades or so before German and Japanese cities were being erased. That’s a long moral chasm crossed in a short span of time. Two world wars can do that.
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
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