Sartre and Camus held that nuclear power forced humanity to choose daily to live

Evidence

As Sartre wrote in response to Hiroshima, humanity had now gained the power to wipe itself out, and must decide every single day that it wanted to live. Camus also wrote that humanity faced the task of choosing between collective suicide and a more intelligent use of its technology — ‘between hell and reason’. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 762

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sartre’s ‘must decide every single day that it wants to live’ is a concrete instance of existentialist committed choice applied to geopolitics.
• SEED: Could anchor an essay on how existentialist responsibility frames existential risk — daily re-choosing existence as both posture and nuclear policy.
• XREF: connects to: Sartre reframed freedom as a demand for responsibility born of nuclear-age self-knowledge — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 41

Broader Connections

• Sartre reframed freedom as a demand for responsibility born of nuclear-age self-knowledge #expands (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 41