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The Book Club: Carlo Rovelli
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- Best of the Spectator
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- Jun 24, 2026
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- 2789
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Summary
In this week's Book Club podcast, I'm joined by the theoretical physicist and writer Carlo Rovelli to discuss his new book 85 Seconds to Midnight: A Physicist's Argument Against Rearmament , where in imitation of Einstein and Bertrand Russell, he uses his platform as a public intellectual to speak against the logic of nuclear escalation. He tells me what the Nazis got right and the US got wrong in the later years of the Second World War, why physicists have a bad conscience about the bomb – and why the threat to civilisation has never been greater. Produced by Oscar Edmondson. Edited by Ed Parker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.