{"id":2317,"date":"2024-03-17T15:20:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T15:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/countdown-takes-stock-of-the-u-s-nuclear-weapons-stockpile\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T15:20:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T15:20:22","slug":"countdown-takes-stock-of-the-u-s-nuclear-weapons-stockpile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/countdown-takes-stock-of-the-u-s-nuclear-weapons-stockpile\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Countdown\u2019 takes stock of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Countdown<\/a>Sarah Scoles<\/em>Bold Type Books, $30<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States is on a mission to modernize its aging nuclear weapons stockpile. And physicists have feelings about it\u2009\u2014\u2009and the future of nuclear weapons more broadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Countdown<\/em>, science writer Sarah Scoles dredges up all the feels in interviews with physicists at the national laboratories dedicated to maintaining the U.S. nuclear stockpile and with researchers, activists and others who orbit that lab system. The researchers grapple with the legacy of their field\u2019s most infamous invention and their roles as stewards of the planet\u2019s most destructive weapons<\/a> (SN: 8\/6\/20<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n