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WHAT HAVE WE WROUGHT?

I watched on Netflix last night:   Einstein and the Bomb .   Rotten Tomatoes  reviewers gave it an 83 rating. What surprised me was that while I knew it was his letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that got the U.S. going on the Manhattan Project, security reasons did not allow him to participate in the effort.  The film  Oppenheimer  covers the building phase of the Atomic Bomb, and a portion of it shows  Oppie meeting with Einstein . So I thought this morning, what can go wrong today to instantly eliminate us.  It then occurred to me that a nuclear war between Russia and the Free World would probably be it.   One list  has climate change at #1, nuclear warfare #2, pandemics #3, social media #4, The Butterfly Effect #5, quantum computing #6, AI #7, the death of all bees #8, asteroid impact #9 and alien invasion #10. But climate change will take time to kill us, and there are reasons to believe that we will gain control someday when decision-makers get truly serious. The war in Uk