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In nuclear war threats, governments once again fail to imagine the unimaginable

Exactly two years ago, it was dawning on Americans “temporarily” locked down for COVID-19 that they were entering an apocalypse so unthinkable, so unimaginable, that … well, actually, it was thought of and imagined by everyone except woefully unprepared governments. Pandemics were already a disaster movie subgenre whose cliches initially provided more useful predictive power than the WHO or CDC. 

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