Polymarket Pulls Bet on Nuclear Detonation in 2026
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· Mar 4, 2026 at 10:55 AM
‘How ghoulish.’ The depravity economy moves into the nuclear war business.
For a few hours on Tuesday, Polymarket hosted a bet about the possibility of nuclear war in 2026. The market asked the question “Nuclear weapon detonation by …?” and racked up close to a million dollars in trading volume before Polymarket took the unusual step to remove the market from its website. It did not simply close down the bet, but it’s been “archived” meaning that a record of it no longer exists. It’s strange as many older and paid out bets remain on the site.
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