Doomsday Clock moves to 100 seconds to midnight -- closest point to nuclear annihilation since Cold War

Fox News ^ | JanUARY 23, 2020 | Chris Ciaccia

[Hojczyk]

The Doomsday Clock moved to 100 seconds to midnight – the closest symbolic point from an “apocalypse” since 1953.

The decision was made on Thursday by The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which announced it from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.

"We argued that the global situation was abnormal," Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, said during the press conference of the decision to keep last year's Clock the same, but noted that nuclear and climate situations are "worsening."

Sharon Squassoni, Georgetown University professor and member of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, noted how extreme the nuclear weapons situation has become. She cited the recent collapse of the Iran nuclear deal, the reemergence of North Korea's nuclear capabilities and the continued buildout of weapons from the U.S., Russia and China.

"In sum, the situation is extremely dangerous and demands an emergency response," Squassoni said.

Sivan Kartha, a senior scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute, noted that time is running out for the planet to get to the emissions goals set at the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. "Emissions need to head towards zero," Kartha said, adding, "there's no question this is an emergency."

The Clock, which warns of impending disasters and takes into account nuclear weapons, rising geopolitical tensions, as well as changes to the environment, was created in 1947 at the beginning of the arms race between the U.S. and the then-Soviet Union.

Since 2007, climate change has been a factor in the groups' decisions.

[Reily]

The whole magazine & clock was created to stampede the West (menacing the US!) into unilateral nuclear disarmament.

Remember the 3rd World War that happened when Reagan deployed Perishing missiles to Europe?

Yeah I slept through it too!

[elbook]

End of ‘Cold War’ ... when did that end? And what was it (clock time) THEN (I assume it was NOT hardly close to midnight at that point’ )

What point was it and where had the ‘clock’ been at various points as a comparison - cuban missile crisis ... when the berlin wall went up when Truman could have nuked the chinese at Yalu ????.

Who are these The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and why are they ATTENTION WHORING right now ??

Another bunch of leftists academics acting out their marching orders ?

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[caver]

You have no way of knowing what is real. We’ve been fed a line of BS forever.

[rockrr]

Well that was a stupid move.....unless it was in a “make it happen” thing - in which it was a stupid move.

[PIF]

Those guys have been wrong since they started that nonsense decades ago

[Leep]

“changes to the environment”

We are doomed in 10 years or less..so sit back and enjoy the ride.

[Luke21]

Not this crap again. When the Dems are tossing gold around the doomsday clock stops ticking and coos like a bird.

[clearcarbon]

"The Clock, which warns of impending disasters and takes into account nuclear weapons, rising geopolitical tensions, as well as changes to the environment"

The clock knows it's about to be scrapped and replaced by a sundial.

[Bommer]

So Obama let’s Iran and North Korea develop a bomb and it was at 2 mins...and this is AFTER he started a half dozen wars to justify his Nobel peace prize. Trump slows everyone down, not 1 war and it moves up?