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🧨Betting on the Bomb: When “Markets” Price In Nuclear War Wall Street logic finally met its natural endpoint: a line on a chart for “nuclear detonation, yes/no.” Polymarket quietly listed a market on whether there would be a nuclear blast anywhere in the world by year’s end. Almost nobody cared — until the U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran. Then daily volume exploded from about $10,000 on Friday to nearly $244,000 on Tuesday, as traders tried to front‑run the apocalypse. At the peak, the crowd was pricing a 24 percent chance of a nuclear detonation this year, before Polymarket yanked the market after a wave of public outrage. ​ For Polymarket, this was small change next to its main Iran trade: whether the regime falls by June 30, a question that has already attracted roughly $7 million in bets. For lawmakers, it was a line crossed. After prediction markets let people bet on Khamenei’s death and then on a global nuclear blast, Democratic members of Congress blasted the platforms for turning mass death into an asset class. ​ The result is peak 2026: nukes on alert, Iran under bombardment, and a crypto prediction market that had to be shamed into delisting “nuclear detonation” like it was just another meme coin that got out of hand. #Iran#nuclear#Polymarket#Trump#Israel#war#markets#crypto 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸