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By Elisabeth Eaves | December 14, 2017
It’s December in a year of bleak headlines. As we hobble toward the finish line, take a pre-holiday break with some nuclear humor from novelist Teddy Wayne in The New Yorker.
He’s not against all restrictions on nuclear missiles, of course. As he writes, “Mental-health screening, so that a madman with a military and a tacky branding empire can’t get hold of them, is a sound idea.”
Enjoy.
Publication Name: The New Yorker
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Topics: Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading
Elizabeth Eaves joined the Bulletin as columns editor in 2013 and subsequently was a contributing editor. Previously Eaves was a columnist at... Read More