Doomsday Clock set back by a minute

Washington Post ^ | 1.15.10 | Dan Zak

[americanophile]

Man is the only creature that knows it's going to die, and atomic scientists are the only professionals who measure the amount of time before man annihilates himself. But there is good news from those scientists: Humanity inched away from Armageddon on Thursday morning. The Doomsday Clock was set back one minute, from 11:55 to 11:54, reversing a precipitous slide toward midnight, the zero hour, ultimate self-destruction.

The clock was reset to reflect a "more hopeful state of world affairs," the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced at the New York Academy of Sciences and over a live feed on the Internet. Forty policymakers, scientists and Nobel laureates on the board of the Bulletin -- an online magazine that covers threats to humanity -- decided to move the clock after spirited debates about current trends in science and politics.

"We are poised to bend the arc of history toward a world free of nuclear weapons," the board said in a statement. "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."

[americanophile]

Are they completely delusional? Crazy, apocalypse-seeking Iran is furiously building nuclear capabilities and vowing to annihilate Israel, while North Korea is periodically testing nukes and trying to export its technology to Syria and elsewhere, and nuclear Pakistan under constant threat of coup from jihadist elements stares nervously across the border at nuclear-armed India...and they write about a more hopeful state of world affairs and bending "the arc of history toward a world free of nuclear weapons." The USA & USSR were rational and calculating...we're on the very edge of fanatics with nukes...we've never been closer to nuclear annihilation.

[Dallas59]

Just imagine if one of them got control of the White House...oh...wait...

[americanophile]

It’s just unreal. They got rid of Bush and are in their socialist-Obama euphoria, so they ignore reality and turn back their stupid clock...despite conditions obviously, and quite objectively, having deteriorated.

[American Constitutionalist]

It's called " Projection " projecting a lie, to give a false sense of security.

Ok, someone has got to say it, it's propaganda ......

The doomsday clock is a worthless act of propaganda .... only the God of Israel knows when this world ends... not man.

[Berlin_Freeper]

[GoodDay]

“Are they completely delusional?”

Yes. BAS is known for being a leftist journal.

[Ezekiel]

Are they completely delusional?

Yes. Doom is hope, delusion is reality, lies are truth.

Almost everything is fake these days. How much longer until the liars (Obamabots being a large subset) go all out to savagely destroy everyone who still clings to truth, righteousness, justice? These aren't normal times, so no wonder these kids are setting back their doomsday clock. It's like the saying: "Spring forward; fall back." Looks like "fall" is where it's at.... a 110-story kind of fall.

[Tolkien]

Just more propoganda from Obama worshippers.

Nothing more than that. NOTHING.

[chadwimc]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Big deal. And obama pisses ginger ale and his farts smell like lavender. Who couldn’t see this coming?

[bmwcyle]

They have no idea what they are doing with this clock.

[maddog55]

Same type scientist as the climate idiots.. they live in a vacuum.

[BerniesFriend]

thanks for the pic..now I can set my watch..there..at least it’s correct twice a day...

[Dixie Yooper]

only the God of Israel knows when this world ends... not man.

And each day brings us closer to that end, regardless of where the hands on their stupid clock are pointing.

[Jackknife]

I have always thought this ‘doomsday clock’ setting every year is completely ridiculous. Like it really matters.

[sphinx]

atomic scientists are the only professionals who measure the amount of time before man annihilates himself

That's an odd perception of a decades old, shopworn PR stunt.

[ballplayer]

They Have Not Met Kamikaze Obama!

[rlmorel]

"...Are they completely delusional? "

I thought the exact same thought, and the answer is yes. It has ALWAYS been yes to this question when asked of these liberal idiots. The world is more dangerous than it has EVER been, even during the cold war.

[PghBaldy]

A more pretentious bunch of idiots the world has not seen.

[catfish1957]

Uhhh... Correct me if I am wrong, but when I was a child I was told that moving a clock to a later time constituted a "set forward" event.

Oops, forgot to see the heading, its the Washington Post, who can not even tell left from right. Everything's left.