How a Single Moment Could Collapse Society and Claim Billions
“70% of power transformers are 25 years or older, 60% of circuit breakers are 30 years or older, and 70% of transmission lines are 25 years or older.” —ASCE 2025 Infrastructure Report “All it takes is one nihilistic madman with a nuclear arsenal to start a nuclear war.” —Richard Garwin, author of the first hydrogen bomb design A Sincere Warning to Continuing Please do not read the following if you are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or emotionally fragile. This topic is profoundly disturbing and will leave a deep mark. I remember watching Terminator 2: Judgment Day back in 1991. One scene is seared into my memory: Sarah Connor, in a dream, shakes a chain-link fence, desperately trying to warn an idyllic version of herself and playing children of impending doom. Then, the flash. A nuclear blast. The horrifying sequence—instant immolation, flesh stripped from bone, a screaming skeleton left clinging to the fence—portrayed a raw, unthinkable brutality. It stunned me ...