El Cataclismo [Chrome Plus]

Global Existential Risk and the Nuclear Arms Race Primary Analyst: Gabriel García Márquez (Ixtapa, Mexico, 1986) 1. The "Account Balance" of Destruction

Like the sword hanging by a thread over Damocles, humanity lives under the constant threat of a "cataclysm" that could occur at any moment through technical error or human madness. 2. Opportunity Costs (The "Humanity Budget") El Cataclismo

"El Cataclismo" (The Cataclysm) is most famously associated with powerful speech, "El Cataclismo de Damocles," delivered in 1986. It serves as a dire report on the existential threat of nuclear weapons. Global Existential Risk and the Nuclear Arms Race

The speech highlights a staggering disparity in global spending. At the time of the report, the world was spending roughly on nuclear weapons. At the time of the report, the world

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The cost of 10 nuclear aircraft carriers could fund a program to provide essential medicine and health care for 1 billion children in the developing world.