Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer helmed research that would end a world war; unfortunately, what he found would forever change how we flaunt diplomacy. Now, all the world’s biggest players had an explosive stick, and we’ve come so close to hitting each other with it.
We’ve Come So Close to Annihiliating Ourselves—Multiple Times
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