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How I Learned to Start WorryingHow I Learned to Start Worrying

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After watching Countdown to Zero, I'm once again terrified of a nuclear holocaust. by Courtney Ferguson I KINDA STOPPED WORRYING about nuclear fallout sometime after WarGames. That's over 20 good years of resting easy! Alas, now I'm back to gnashing my teeth and nervously ducking under my desk anytime I hear a loud bang. Thanks, Countdown to Zero. In 1961, John F. Kennedy said, "[We] live under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, or miscalculation, or by madness." Documentarian Lucy Walker sets…

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