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It says something about the amount of peril in today's world that nuclear holocaust has lost ground to other horsemen of the apocalypse. Pandemics, environmental collapse, fascist ascendancies and the spread of carceral states: they haven't chase the mushroom cloud from our nightmares, but they've eaten into its apocalyptic market share. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 took a little bit of the Cold War pressure off. No longer were we face to face with the ICBM. It was still there, dangling above us, but there was suddenly some breathing space between the payload and our poor tender heads.
