The Doomsday Clock Just Ticked Closer To Midnight

[DamianTV]

https://science.slashdot.org/story/1...er-to-midnight

Scientists moved the hands of the symbolic "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight on Thursday amid increasing worries over nuclear weapons and climate change. From a report:

The clock is now two minutes to midnight. "Because of the extraordinary danger of the current moment, the Science and Security Board today moves the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to catastrophe," said Rachel Bronson, president of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. "This is the closest the Clock has ever been to Doomsday, and as close as it was in 1953, at the height of the Cold War." Each year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a non-profit group that sets the clock, decides whether the events of the previous year pushed humanity closer or farther from destruction. The symbolic clock is now the closest it's been to midnight since 1953. It was also two minutes to midnight in 1953 when the hydrogen bomb was first tested.

The power to push the button in 1953 was only in the hands of one person. Today, there are number of people with the power to push their own version of the button, and we cant exactly say all those people are stable. Its not just about Trump or Kim, but the advisors and the Deep State who are already willing to lie through their teeth to everyone to start wars.

This also very well could be the start of something new. Not just their normal Fearmongering, but an actual reason to be afraid. False Flags seem to happen about once a generation or so, and it could be time for the newest False Flag.

[DamianTV]

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Not a single $#@! is given, even here...

[dannno]

I lold

[Jan2017]

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Not a single $#@! is given, even here...

I was certainly expecting some move - to be ticking closer after the 2017 hydrogen bomb underground test
by North Korea resulting in the 6.3 magnitude earthquake recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey -
and thought it plausible they might have been moving up closer to midnight - i.e. the closest it has EVER been.

Check out the full timeline from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists - now updated since
I posted the 2017 move from 3 minutes to 2 and a half minutes to midnight here in RPF.

https://thebulletin.org/timeline

1953: After much debate, the United States decides to pursue the hydrogen bomb, a weapon far more powerful than any atomic bomb. In October 1952, the United States tests its first thermonuclear device, obliterating a Pacific Ocean islet in the process; nine months later, the Soviets test an H-bomb of their own. "The hands of the Clock of Doom have moved again," the Bulletin announces. "Only a few more swings of the pendulum, and, from Moscow to Chicago, atomic explosions will strike midnight for Western civilization." Read the full statement.

2018: The failure of world leaders to address the largest threats to humanity’s future is lamentable—but that failure can be reversed. It is two minutes to midnight, but the Doomsday Clock has ticked away from midnight in the past, and during the next year, the world can again move it further from apocalypse. The warning the Science and Security Board now sends is clear, the danger obvious and imminent. The opportunity to reduce the danger is equally clear. The world has seen the threat posed by the misuse of information technology and witnessed the vulnerability of democracies to disinformation. But there is a flip side to the abuse of social media. Leaders react when citizens insist they do so, and citizens around the world can use the power of the internet to improve the long-term prospects of their children and grandchildren. They can insist on facts, and discount nonsense. They can demand action to reduce the existential threat of nuclear war and unchecked climate change. They can seize the opportunity to make a safer and saner world. See the full statement from the Science and Security Board on the 2018 time of the Doomsday Clock.

2017: For the last two years, the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock stayed set at three minutes before the hour, the closest it had been to midnight since the early 1980s. In its two most recent annual announcements on the Clock, the Science and Security Board warned: “The probability of global catastrophe is very high, and the actions needed to reduce the risks of disaster must be taken very soon.” In 2017, we find the danger to be even greater, the need for action more urgent. It is two and a half minutes to midnight, the Clock is ticking, global danger looms. Wise public officials should act immediately, guiding humanity away from the brink. If they do not, wise citizens must step forward and lead the way. See the full statement from the Science and Security Board on the 2017 time of the Doomsday Clock.

[otherone]

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Not a single $#@! is given, even here...

How do they know it's not two minutes to noon? Is it digital?

[Swordsmyth]

Are we falling behind in the mine-shaft race? Is there a mine-shaft gap?
Can I fight in the war room?



Paging chicken little, paging chicken little, foxy loxy is calling.


I'll make my own judgements on the world situation instead of letting propagandists tell me when to freak out thank you.

[Jan2017]

The Doomsday Clock is a picture on the cover of the Bulletin issue that comes out this time each year - many years it doesn't change.

The 42nd President - Bill Clinton - his 8 years got us 8 minutes closer to apocalypse, all while getting
his hummers in the Oval Office from an intern.

1991
IT IS 17 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT

1991: With the Cold War officially over, the United States and Russia begin making deep cuts to their nuclear arsenals. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty greatly reduces the number of strategic nuclear weapons deployed by the two former adversaries. Better still, a series of unilateral initiatives remove most of the intercontinental ballistic missiles and bombers in both countries from hair-trigger alert. "The illusion that tens of thousands of nuclear weapons are a guarantor of national security has been stripped away," the Bulletin declares. Read the full statement.

1998
IT IS 9 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT

1998: India and Pakistan stage nuclear weapons tests only three weeks apart. "The tests are a symptom of the failure of the international community to fully commit itself to control the spread of nuclear weapons — and to work toward substantial reductions in the numbers of these weapons," a dismayed Bulletin reports. Russia and the United States continue to serve as poor examples to the rest of the world. Together, they still maintain 7,000 warheads ready to fire at each other within 15 minutes. Read the full statement.

[Jan2017]

Are we falling behind in the mine-shaft race? Is there a mine-shaft gap?
Can I fight in the war room?



Paging chicken little, paging chicken little, foxy loxy is calling.


I'll make my own judgements on the world situation instead of letting propagandists tell me when to freak out thank you.

I'm NOT reading any freak out - mostly an encouragement tone to act though, before it does get too late.

2018

". . . the Doomsday Clock has ticked away from midnight in the past, and during the next year,
the world can again move it further from apocalypse. "

2017

". . .Wise public officials should act immediately, guiding humanity away from the brink.
If they do not, wise citizens must step forward and lead the way."

[DamianTV]

How do they know it's not two minutes to noon? Is it digital?

I think it might be an Atomic Clock, which, unlike Zippy, is accurate more than once a day!

[oyarde]

I guess I do not see why it would have changed in the past year.

[nikcers]

I guess I do not see why it would have changed in the past year.

Nuclear arms race??

The U.S. and Russia have reversed decades of non-proliferation efforts in order to modernize and potentially expand their nuclear weapons arsenals, which both President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have touted as vital to the national security of their respective countries.

Secretary of Defense, who is currently Jim Mattis, and other administration officials based on the president's input.
The 64-page document is not a call for stockpiling massive numbers of new atomic bombs, but it outlines the Trump administration's plans to not only expand nuclear weapons capabilities, but also make the devices eminently easier for military forces to use.

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said Wednesday that his country's nuclear stockpile, the largest in the world, should be almost entirely fitted with new, advanced weaponry in the next few years.

A key U.S. nuclear weapons document confirms that the Russian government is developing the most powerful nuclear weapon in more than a half century. A leaked copy of the Pentagon’s Nuclear Posture Review states that Russia is developing a “new intercontinental, nuclear-armed undersea autonomous torpedo.”a very long range autonomous underwater vehicle that has a range 6,200 miles, a maximum depth of 3,280 feet, and a speed of 100 knots

But what really makes Kanyon nightmare fuel is the drone torpedo's payload: a 100-megaton thermonuclear weapon. By way of comparison, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was 16 kilotons, or the equivalent of 16,000 tons of TNT. Kanyon’s nuke would be the equivalent of 100,000,000 tons of TNT. That’s twice as powerful as Tsar Bomba, the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever tested. Dropped on New York City, a 100-megaton bomb would kill 8 million people outright and injure 6 million more.


Kanyon is designed to attack coastal areas, destroying cities, naval bases, and ports. The mega-bomb would also generate an artificial tsunami that would surge inland, spreading radioactive contamination with the advancing water. To make matters worse there are reports the warhead is “salted” with the radioactive isotope Cobalt-60. Contaminated areas would be off-limits to humanity for up to 100 years.

[Jan2017]

Nuclear arms race??

VP Mike Pence sees no daylight to steal spotlight from athletes at Korea Olympics . . .
. . . this story is getting better and better, eh?

[Swordsmyth]

Where are these guys when the Demoncrats try to push us into war with Russia?

[Zippyjuan]

Where are these guys when the Demoncrats try to push us into war with Russia?

JF Kennedy was able to talk them down.

[Swordsmyth]

JF Kennedy was able to talk them down.

I'm talking about right now.

[Zippyjuan]

I'm talking about right now.

Then you must mean Republicans. They control all branches of government- the House, Senate, and Presidency.

[Swordsmyth]

Then you must mean Republicans. They control all branches of government- the House, Senate, and Presidency.

LOL, there are some RINOs on the Russophobia bandwagon but the Dems are nearly unanimous and they started it when they thought Hitlery would win and start the war for them.

[dannno]

JF Kennedy was able to talk them down.

[Zippyjuan]

Never trust a Ruskie!

[Swordsmyth]

Never trust a Bushie!

Fixed it.

[Danke]

VP Mike Pence sees no daylight to steal spotlight from athletes at Korea Olympics . . .
. . . this story is getting better and better, eh?

Whoa! How did I miss this?
@TheTexan

[Pauls' Revere]

What time zone is the clock in?

[Danke]

What time zone is the clock in?

Kirimati

[TheTexan]

Whoa! How did I miss this?
@TheTexan

Mike Pence has no class. Because he is embarrassingly poor.

Need new VP for 2020. Maybe Rand

[Pauls' Revere]

Kirimati

Awesome, the Kirimatians better have a good power source for their clock.

[Anti Federalist]

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Not a single $#@! is given, even here...

Not about this, no.

A bunch of Bolshevik scientists predicting doomsday...yawn...what else is new.

If humanity gets wiped out, it will be with whimper not a bang.

Some new airborne plague, most likely weaponized by us, is what will do us in.

[Aratus]

Not about this, no.

A bunch of Bolshevik scientists predicting doomsday...yawn...what else is new.

If humanity gets wiped out, it will be with whimper not a bang.

Some new airborne plague, most likely weaponized by us, is what will do us in.

AF is correct. Odds are its a bio-tech firm in my home state that has hired folks who are overpaid
and easily distracted. Even if the firm had a stellar record of no lab mishaps for two decades, the
flushing down into the sewer of a mislabeled vial could trigger a zombie virus pandemic like AMC's
The Walking Dead. Dirty bombs or suitcase nukes like the Soviet ones Carlos the Jackal is said to
have trucked or carried around are more eclectic or rarified. Bio-tech NEEDS "regs" quite often!!!