Posted on 01/25/2018 12:59:43 PM PST by The Pack Knight
Growing concerns about a possible nuclear war and other global threats have pushed forward the symbolic Doomsday Clock by 30 seconds - to just two minutes before midnight.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) said it had acted because the world was becoming "more dangerous".
The clock, created by the journal in 1947, is a metaphor for how close the mankind is to destroying the Earth.
It is now the closest to the apocalypse it has been since 1953.
That was the year when the US and the Soviet Union tested hydrogen bombs.
Last year, the clock was also moved forward by 30 seconds.
What was behind the decision?
Announcing the move in Washington DC on Thursday, the BAS said the decision "wasn't easy" and said it was not based on a single factor.
However BAS President and CEO Rachel Bronson said that "in this year's discussions, nuclear issues took centre stage once again".
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
oh raffing out roud
No joke. The graphic in the article identifies 1984, one of the four times when the clock showed three minutes or less, as the year “US-Soviet relations reach lowest point.”
So US-Soviet relations in 1984 were lower than they were during, I don’t know, the Berlin Blockade, the Korean War, or the Cuban Missile Crisis? Oh yeah, there were Democrats in the White House during those events.
And which way was the clock moving when Clinton and Obama’s appeasement gave Kim Jong Un the green light to progress with his nuke program? My guess is counter clockwise towards peace and happiness.
BAS, like the Federation of American Scientists, is a left-wing activist group. Their PR stunts are not based upon any genuine “science” but upon the perceived needs of Leftard agendas.
They have it so close to midnight mostly due to trying to rile up people over the global warming scam.
Oh my God.
There you go again using facts and common sense to counter the “experts”. :)
Actually, to be fair, they did move it closer to midnight during most of Clinton’s and Obama’s presidencies.
Bullcrap since 1947.
Let me know when it’s a quarter after.
Came here for this gif
TY!
The "Doomsday Clock" doesn't "move". A pathetic collection of pusillanimous communists wet their panties while issuing anti-American propaganda.
Oh that Global Warming
I’ve had that stuck in my head since I first saw the headline.
But....but can’t we slow it down by giving this fine organization a lot of money?
The B2’s on Guam have to leave. They are causing it to tip over.
Ha!
I thought it said “Doomsday Chuck”...
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