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David Gross Warns Nuclear War Odds Have Doubled, Putting the Next 50 Years in Doubt

David Gross Warns Nuclear War Odds Have Doubled, Putting the Next 50 Years in Doubt

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David Gross, the 2004 Nobel Prize winning physicist, says the annual risk of nuclear war has climbed from about 1% during the Cold War to roughly 2% today, a shift he argues sharply cuts humanity’s odds of making it another 50 years. He points to a nine-country nuclear club, collapsing arms-control treaties, hypersonic weapons, and growing reliance on automated and AI-driven decision systems. David Gross has spent his career reducing the universe to equations, but his latest math is about something far messier: human survival.

Source: Bitcoin.com News

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