Apollo Frequencies is a series exploring sounds that seem to come from another world. In this week’s edition, hamiltonthemixtape attends a KronosQuartet performance at the end of a summit for nuclear disarmament.⁠ ⁠ The nuclear age began in earnest on July 16, 1945. In a vast expanse of New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert, the United States Army detonated the first plutonium bomb. 80 years later, roughly 20 Nobel Laureates and about 60 leading nuclear experts convened at UChicago from July 14–16 to discuss potential solutions to the ever-increasing threat of a nuclear apocalypse and sign a document expressing their concerns to the general public and the powers that be: 13 calls to action collectively named The Nobel Laureate Assembly Declaration for the Prevention of Nuclear War.⁠ ⁠ On the assembly’s final evening, laureates, physicists, diplomats, activists, professors, and students gathered to watch Kronos Quartet’s concluding performance. The modern classical group’s program of p...