It’s been decades since most Americans have thought seriously about nuclear war, although we’re regularly entertained with reality TV shows about “preppers” readying themselves for it, or a zombie invasion. As governments around the globe dust off moldering contingency plans for an atomic sunset, it’s official: Nuclear Armageddon is hovering over the world once again. In response, the Swedish government has begun updating shelters untouched since the fall of the Soviet Union.

president has ever gone in a nuclear exercise. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Vladimir Putin sat down last month to practice the forgotten art of nuclear war, personally pushing the button to launch three ballistic missiles during a military drill, a step further than any U.S. Not heard in decades, the tone will now ring out on the first business day of each month - one of a series of measures the state is undertaking to adjust to life in the shadow of North Korea’s ongoing ballistic missile tests and the bizarre gamesmanship between the “Rocket Man” and our own explosively tempered president. The state’s emergency management agency had flipped the switch on its “Attack Warning Tone,” a foreboding siren that heralds an imminent nuclear attack. Shortly before noon on December 1, an ominous wail pierced the air throughout the Hawaiian Islands.

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