In Episode 86 of MARS MESSINA PRESENTS, we learn that researchers have set the Doomsday Clock at 100 seconds to midnight in 2022 - the closest we have ever been to nuclear war. This is saying a lot, because October 27, 1962, is considered the most dangerous day humanity, as a whole, has ever experienced. We are going to talk about the Cuban Missile Crisis, a moment in time when the entire planet faced nuclear annihilation. Apparently, researchers and historians believe that today, with another showdown with Russia in the proxy war in Ukraine, we are just as close to all out nuclear war as we were in 1962. We will revisit the lessons learned in 1962, when rational heads on opposing sides chose life over death, but how one mistake could have made it all go another way. Shirking denial, we find ourselves right back at that point. How do we continue to choose life, when we consistently support death?
BEDTIME STORIES FROM THE ACOUSTIC BOOKSHELF closes with the poem, "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death", by W.B. Yeats.
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