85 Seconds to Midnight
A Physicist's Argument Against Rearmament
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- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
23 June 2026
Summary
A warning to humankind from one of the world’s greatest physicists.
“What drives these pages is the guilty conscience of my profession, theoretical physics. My sole aim is to help avert what seems to me to be the unintended, yet scarcely avoidable, end point of the current politics of the governments we have elected—nuclear war.”
The world is re-arming and embroiled in endless conflict. The Doomsday Clock has now been set to 85 seconds to midnight, with the risk of nuclear war…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781837315574 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1837315574 |
| Author: | Carlo Rovelli |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 23 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 84g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 111mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
A comprehensive and soberingly clear-eyed account of the political logic that has governed the development, production and employment of nuclear weapons since fission was discovered, and a desperate warning to bring that logic under our control before it destroys us all – Michael Frayn
Chilling… The title of Rovelli’s book comes from the 2026 edition of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists that set the Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight, the closest we’ve ever been to nuclear catastrophe. For Rovelli, the stupidity of our leaders has increased that risk * Guardian *
About The Author
Carlo Rovelli
Carlo Rovelli is an internationally acclaimed writer and theoretical physicist. His books, including Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, Helgoland, and White Holes, have been global bestsellers and translated into over forty languages. Rovelli’s research focuses on the physics of space and time, and he currently leads the quantum gravity research group at the Centre de physique théorique in Marseille, France.
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