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In naming the space and electric car tycoon and the healthcare entrepreneur to head a new Department of Government Efficiency, Trump said he expected them to drive “radical change,” something like the Manhattan Project, the government initiative that created the atomic bomb during World War II.

Last Oscar season, Christopher Nolan proved that Academy voters can and will award their top trophy to a major hit: “Oppenheimer,” the director’s moody biopic about the scientist who developed the atomic bomb, ranks as the third highest grossing best picture winner, exponentially more successful at the box office than its recent predecessors.

But if South Korea or Japan built their own atomic weapons, tensions would escalate and an arms race would break out in East Asia.

In 2023 the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shifted the countdown to 90.

It was built in the 1950s as an observation post and was designed to house up to three people for up to three weeks in the event of an atomic strike.