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David Gross\u2019s warning lands like a punch because it connects headlines we try to ignore into one brutal timeline. Nuclear arsenals are growing, the old safeguards are gone, and talk of \u201climited\u201d nuclear strikes is creeping back into mainstream politics. Add AI systems that act faster than any human, and you get a world where a glitch, a misread radar signal, or an algorithm\u2019s \u201challucination\u201d could end millions of lives before anyone has time to question it.<\/p>\n

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Yet the Doomsday Clock, grim as it is, was never meant to paralyze us. It\u2019s a siren, not a sentence. The same species that built hydrogen bombs also built treaties, verification regimes, and global movements that once pushed those clock hands back. Parke is right: these threats are human-made, which means they are human-solvable. The real question isn\u2019t whether Gross is too pessimistic \u2014 it\u2019s whether we\u2019re willing to act as if he might be right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Gross\u2019s warning lands like a punch because it connects headlines we try to ignore into one brutal timeline. 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