Tick. Tick. Tick.

[athelind]

Despite the ever-escalating global conflict that the world's last superpower is pushing so vigorously, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists hasen't moved the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock any closer to midnight in four years.

Comments

[tikaani.livejournal.com]

As the staff of the Bulletin writes, "the movement of the hand, forward or back, nonetheless reflects a changing perception of the danger of catastrophic events." In my opinion, there isn't much change in the overall level of danger to the world as a whole (It is, afterall, the "Doomsday Clock"), it's a bunch of continued localized flare-ups all over the place that continue.

Personally, I don't feel any more in danger in the world today than I felt in 2002. (Except maybe from the stupidity of my own government, and now even Democrats).

The clock didn't even move during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It stood at Seven Minutes to Midnight in 1960, and didn't move until October 1963, when it went to 12 Minutes.

The Clock has changed only 18 times since it first appeared back in 1947. In fact the movement in 2002 was the first since 1998, and the 2002 movement was justified by the lack of global disarmament, the US withdrawal from the ABM Treaty, and the belief that terrorists were trying to acquire NBC weapons.