Fears about nuclear war are reaching a fever pitch. Another grim sign of the times | Judith Levine

News stories are weighing nuclear risk as experts muse on the possibility of global warfare Intimations of world war three – the big one, nuclear Armageddon – didn’t arise yesterday. But they got more urgent when Donald Trump was elected the second time. In December 2024, Newsweek published a map of the “safest US states to live during nuclear war”.