Yup. Climate change is going to suck, but actual existential risk is way lower now. And before the 20th century people did the same end-is-nigh thing on supernatural grounds.
If you’re thinking of the submarine, it wasn’t a specialist, it was an admiral who just happened to be on the right boat and belayed the captain and political officer’s order. One of the same guys that was on K-19, interestingly. There was also an armed nuke the French just kind of dropped on themselves by accident. Here’s the list of known close calls on Wikipedia.
Yup. Climate change is going to suck, but actual existential risk is way lower now. And before the 20th century people did the same end-is-nigh thing on supernatural grounds.
If you’re thinking of the submarine, it wasn’t a specialist, it was an admiral who just happened to be on the right boat and belayed the captain and political officer’s order. One of the same guys that was on K-19, interestingly. There was also an armed nuke the French just kind of dropped on themselves by accident. Here’s the list of known close calls on Wikipedia.
That was it,thanks