Posted on 01/14/2010 11:21:55 AM PST by steve-b
Citing a more "hopeful state of world affairs" in relation to the twin threats posed by nuclear weapons and climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) is moving the minute hand of its famous Doomsday Clock one minute away from midnight. It is now 6 minutes to midnight. The decision by the BAS Science and Security Board was made in consultation with the Bulletin's Board of Sponsors, which includes 19 Nobel Laureates....
In a statement supporting the decision to move the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock, the BAS Board said: "It is 6 minutes to midnight. We are poised to bend the arc of history toward a world free of nuclear weapons. For the first time since atomic bombs were dropped in 1945, leaders of nuclear weapons states are cooperating to vastly reduce their arsenals and secure all nuclear bomb-making material. And for the first time ever, industrialized and developing countries alike are pledging to limit climate-changing gas emissions that could render our planet nearly uninhabitable. These unprecedented steps are signs of a growing political will to tackle the two gravest threats to civilization--the terror of nuclear weapons and runaway climate change."...
The statement continues: "A key to the new era of cooperation is a change in the U.S. government's orientation toward international affairs brought about in part by the election of Obama. With a more pragmatic, problem-solving approach, not only has Obama initiated new arms reduction talks with Russia, he has started negotiations with Iran to close its nuclear enrichment program, and directed the U.S. government to lead a global effort to secure loose fissile material in four years...."
Quite frankly, they'd get more credibility from me if they'd won "Best of Show"
A weak US as we have right now makes it just that much more likely that one of the minor nuclear powers could decide that maybe they can get away with a limited exchange against their foe without repercussions beyond condemnation etc. Pakistan/India, Iran/Israel, China/India, China/Taiwan, North Korea/South Korea, Russia/Georgia, etc etc all come to mind. If any of those conflicts flared, followed by an immediate statement from the perpetrator that one (or five, or however many they’d popped off) was all they were going to do, and they were now done, the Zer0 would probably wash his hands of the whole thing, and the UN would do nothing more than issue stern letters of condemnation filled with threats of more letters if the offender didn’t get back in line.
Maureen Dowd made that pic as part of her prescribed “Photoshop Therapy”.
The BAS is just another support group for the light skin, negro, non ebonic speaking, commie bag fastards that prove day after day, year after year, decade after decade that they are 20 IQ points below morons ..... and have no business running this country.
Lock and load the whole stinking bunch! Love that hopey and Changey Bovine excrement that so many of the electorate with iq’s below moron bit into.
Just a product of ALL the fecal material hitting the very large dissemination device, the rotating oscilator located in the D.c. beltway ..... blowing the moronic originated stench across the land.
Gas masks for all .... can we find at least a breath of fresh air anywhere?
I hate to rain on their parade, but everyday moves us one day closer to the end of time. You can’t turn the hands of the “real clock” back.
After 9/11, I looked up the Doomsday Clock online to see if it had budged any because of the attack. Of course it had not and for 6 months afterward no movement when I checked again off and on.
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