In the final chapter of *Cosmos*, Carl Sagan describes a world where nuclear weapons hold billions hostage, where military secrecy shields decision-makers from accountability, and where no one has been elected to speak on behalf of the human species. He wrote it in the Cold War. It reads like today's headlines. In this episode, we sit with that question — and ask ourselves why, forty years later, we still don't have an answer.
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