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the absence of these contributions. There is no agreement on the signifi- cance of this increase in temperature on society. The temperature of the Earth has gone through a set of sawtooth excursions over the last millennia: we are now in an exceptionally warm period in this normal climatic cycle i
rk- able a world in which science and technology—born as quantum mechan- ics and grown to be nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs; or perhaps just a rental truck containing an amateur's fully functional fission bomb)—make this single stroke distressingly possible. The failure
the absence of these contributions. There is no agreement on the signifi- cance of this increase in temperature on society. The temperature of the Earth has gone through a set of sawtooth excursions over the last millennia: we are now in an exceptionally warm period in this normal climatic cycle i
rk- able a world in which science and technology—born as quantum mechan- ics and grown to be nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs; or perhaps just a rental truck containing an amateur's fully functional fission bomb)—make this single stroke distressingly possible. The failure
they are outlandish, from moon-based missile launchers to systems that would capture and redirect asteroids towards a target on the surface of the Earth. Evidently, not all scenarios are technically feasible and will forever remain the stuff of science-fiction novels. But some breakthroughs are with
e U.S. (much less so against, say, the Taliban or Hamas). EMP weapons fired from lower-altitude platforms or via land-based missile systems (e.g., ICBMs) are vulnerable to intercepts or preemptive strikes. Satellite-mounted EMP weapons, on the other hand, would be beyond the reach of most countries,
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Julie K. Brown
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New York
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Vicky Ward
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Steven Pinker
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