Doomsday Clock to Move Closer to Nuclear Armageddon
January 13th, 2007You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure it out. Or, maybe you do…
Via: Yahoo/AFP:
The world is inching closer to nuclear Armageddon, a group of prominent scientists and security experts said.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has kept a Doomsday clock since 1947 as a reminder of the dangers of nuclear proliferation.
The clock will be moved forward Wednesday at simultaneous events in Washington and London whose speakers will include physicist Stephen Hawking, the Chicago-based periodical said in a statement.
The Bulletin warned that the world had entered a “Second Nuclear Age marked by grave threats.”
It cited the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea; escalating terrorism; unsecured nuclear materials in Russia and elsewhere, the continuing “launch-ready” status of 2,000 of the 25,000 nuclear weapons held by the United States and Russia, and “new pressure from climate change for expanded civilian nuclear power that could increase proliferation risks.”
I’ve been following this doomsday clock on and off for years. Strange how it went out of fashion for people to be anxious about it.
Now, with the Millenium Bug, SARS, Bird Flu and now Climate Change the public has been again swept with anxiety.
The sad thing is, that the nuclear lobby is now able to piggy-back on this fear – to the point where we’re being sold a great story. “It’s our moral duty to promote the nuclear industry as a solution to climate change. Yet, as the Atomic Scientists know – nuclear war is the greater danger!