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

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 […]