If there's a button to be pushed, someone's going to push it.
For more than eighty years, humanity has lived beneath the shadow of nuclear weapons, trusting that they will never be used again.
But what if this trust is misplaced?
The Button argues that the greatest threat facing civilisation is psychological. As long as the power to destroy the world exists, our future hangs by a thread.
This visionary manifesto explores the history, psychology, and philosopy of nuclear detterence before asking a deeper question: Can humanity outgrow the consciousness that created the button?
