The graveyard is brightly lit these days, the graveyard is lined with concession stands and gift shops. There are days when Americans can be excused for thinking the Doomsday Clock is ticking all the time, in every town and neighborhood. It's not their fault. When the Doomsday Clock was created in 1947, this was a very different country. You might visit, but you could soon leave.
Every day is doomsday, or so the public is led to believe.
Once in a great while news so terrible would occur that everyone stopped in their tracks, everyone seemed to be made aware of it at once. All news does that now. The technology allows it, and the news companies make sure the technology is well utilized. The people in the airport paid scant notice as the hand of the Doomsday Clock was moved. Minutes later, the baseball scores came on.