“85 Seconds to Midnight” February 13, 2026

Whitman Wire

“The more unstable a country, the more likely it is that these things are going to get used… The conflict between India and Pakistan, in particular, there’s climate implications for that, also authoritarian implications,” said Sean Arent, Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program Manager for the Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility. “They were actively flying bombing missions over each other’s countries. These are both nuclear-armed states who developed nuclear weapons in conflict with one another. So that’s a nuclear flashpoint right there.”