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Topic: Armageddon

Residents watch from a rooftop as smoke rises over Tehran following a strike on March 3, 2026, with an illustration of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse faintly layered in the background. (Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / ATTA KENARE / Public Domain)

The modern prophecy behind the Iran war

Russell Payne
Steve Buscemi, Will Patton, Bruce Willis, Michael Clarke Duncan, Ben Affleck, and Owen Wilson walking in NASA uniforms in a scene from the film 'Armageddon', 1998. (Touchstone/Getty Images)

"Armageddon" at 25: An anti-science epic

Matthew Rozsa
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Earth's asteroid warning system

Nicole Karlis
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Can humanity make peace with its death?

Matthew Rozsa
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Lindsay Abrams
Mural by the artist Bansky along Regent’s Canal in London. (Flickr/Matt Brown)

Yotam Marom - Waging Nonviolence
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Prachi Gupta
"The Walking Dead"

Samuel Sattin - The Weeklings
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