Doomsday Clock Moving Forward

Originally posted by Regenmacher
Considering Kim Jong-il is viewed as more unstable than Pakistan's Musharraf or India's Kalam.

Originally posted by kleverone

Originally posted by Regenmacher
Considering Kim Jong-il is viewed as more unstable than Pakistan's Musharraf or India's Kalam.

...Kim Jong is not a threat, his country is starving and he is scared, give him a little food and water and let him rule his little nation how he wants. LETS NOT BEAT THE HORNETS NEST AGAIN! Remove the sanctions and watch the threat disapate. Too bad our leaders think muscle is the only answer. I guess leading by example and demonstrating compassion is not the final goal we seek to achieve.

Originally posted by kleverone
Kim Jong is not a threat, his country is starving and he is scared, give him a little food and water and let him rule his little nation how he wants.(

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock conveys how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction--the figurative midnight--and monitors the means humankind could use to obliterate itself. First and foremost, these include nuclear weapons, but they also encompass climate-changing technologies and new developments in the life sciences and nanotechnology that could inflict irrevocable harm.
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17 January 2007

We stand at the brink of a second nuclear age. Not since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has the world faced such perilous choices. North Korea’s recent test of a nuclear weapon, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, a renewed U.S. emphasis on the military utility of nuclear weapons, the failure to adequately secure nuclear materials, and the continued presence of some 26,000 nuclear weapons in the United States and Russia are symptomatic of a larger failure to solve the problems posed by the most destructive technology on Earth.

As in past deliberations, we have examined other human-made threats to civilization. We have concluded that the dangers posed by climate change are nearly as dire as those posed by nuclear weapons. The effects may be less dramatic in the short term than the destruction that could be wrought by nuclear explosions, but over the next three to four decades climate change could cause drastic harm to the habitats upon which human societies depend for survival.

This deteriorating state of global affairs leads the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists--in consultation with a Board of Sponsors that includes 18 Nobel laureates--to move the minute hand of the “Doomsday Clock” from seven to five minutes to midnight.
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