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Sliders Arturo-Bennish Nuclear Story

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In a very early episode of the 1st season title "Last Days: https://sliders.fandom.com/wiki/Last_Days What sliders ended up calling "asteroid world": https://sliders.fandom.com/wiki/Asteroid_World Introduction At the heart of Sliders' "Last Days" episode lies one of the series' most compelling moral dilemmas: Professor Maximillian Arturo and Conrad Bennish Jr.'s race to build an atomic bomb to save Earth from an asteroid. This storyline transcends typical action-adventure plotting to explore profound questions about scientific responsibility, knowledge as power, and whether saving the present justifies endangering the future. The World Without Nuclear Weapons Einstein's Choice The foundation of this story begins fifty years before the Sliders' arrival, during World War II's Manhattan Project. On this alternate Earth, Albert Einstein made a choice that would define the next half-century of human history. Recognizing the catastrophic ...