5 Minutes to Midnight
Hmmm... The Doomsday Clock has just been updated today to 5 minutes to midnight.
"On January 12, 2007, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in a press release noted that the Doomsday clock was to be moved forward to highlight the "Most Perilous Period Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) will move the minute hand of the "Doomsday Clock" on January 17, 2007...the first such change to the Clock since February 2002. The major new step reflects growing concerns about a "Second Nuclear Age" marked by grave threats, including: nuclear ambitions in Iran and North Korea, unsecured nuclear materials in Russia and elsewhere, the continuing "launch-ready" status of 2,000 of the 25,000 nuclear weapons held by the U.S. and Russia, escalating terrorism, and new pressure from climate change for expanded civilian nuclear power that could increase proliferation risks."
First time they mention climate change (global warming) as a major threat to mankind. Stephen Hawking says, "Terror only kills hundreds or thousands of people. Global warming could kill millions. We should have a war on global warming rather than the war on terror."
Time to pack on some nuclear disaster survival kit? Not quite. ^_^;;;
"On January 12, 2007, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in a press release noted that the Doomsday clock was to be moved forward to highlight the "Most Perilous Period Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) will move the minute hand of the "Doomsday Clock" on January 17, 2007...the first such change to the Clock since February 2002. The major new step reflects growing concerns about a "Second Nuclear Age" marked by grave threats, including: nuclear ambitions in Iran and North Korea, unsecured nuclear materials in Russia and elsewhere, the continuing "launch-ready" status of 2,000 of the 25,000 nuclear weapons held by the U.S. and Russia, escalating terrorism, and new pressure from climate change for expanded civilian nuclear power that could increase proliferation risks."
First time they mention climate change (global warming) as a major threat to mankind. Stephen Hawking says, "Terror only kills hundreds or thousands of people. Global warming could kill millions. We should have a war on global warming rather than the war on terror."
Time to pack on some nuclear disaster survival kit? Not quite. ^_^;;;