Doomsday Clock

How China, India And Pakistan Have Shifted The Doomsday Clock Forward

... Chinese Type 041 submarines it has ordered. They are scheduled for delivery in 2023 and 2028. The Babur-3 test suggests that Pakistan has acquired the capability by modifying the torpedo-launch system on its French-designed Agosta 90-B submarines that had previously been altered to accommodate US-supplied Harpoon anti-ship missiles. They only needed a minor upgrade for a cruise missile system. It also showed how Pakistan worked towards completing the triad of air-, land- and sea-based delivery platforms for nuclear weapons. The trial was in response to India’s commissioning last August of the Arihant, its first nuclear-powered nuclear-armed submarine. Since 2010, the United States has actively promoted India’s membership of the four multilateral groupings that regulate the transfer of technologies with applications for weapons of mass destruction. The US argues that India has demonstrated it is a responsible nuclear-weapons state. As such, it should be granted waivers on key conditions, especially with regard to the nuclear ...

Get Your Special Sauce, Doomsday Clock Keeps Ticking And Taking 'break A Leg' To Extremes

... One of them, nuclear physicist Alexander Langsdorf, was married to artist Martyl Langsdorf. She created the clock and set it at seven minutes to midnight, or 11:53, for the cover of the group's magazine. Her husband moved the time four minutes later in 1949. Since then, the bulletin's board has determined when the clock's minute hand will move, usually to draw attention to worldwide crises that, the board believes, threaten the survival of the human species. The group's reasoning focuses almost exclusively on the availability of nuclear weapons and a willingness among the world's great powers to use them. In 2016, the bulletin said in its statement Thursday, "the United States and Russia - which together possess more than 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons - remained at odds in a variety of theaters, from Syria ...

Doomsday Clock Announcement Doesn't Mean World Will Blow Up In 2 Mins 30 Secs

... they talk about may some of them happen decades into the future (for global warming) and none would destroy the world. The clock often stays at the same time for years on end. They move it backwards if things improve and forward if things get worse. This shows its position up to 2016. You can read about the timeline here. It's about the risk of serious consequences. Such as for instance, flooding, drought, starvation, cities getting bomb damage from nuclear weapons and many killed if we have an all out nuclear war etc. And the reason for saying that is to get politicians to act to prevent it happening. They use a small number of minutes in the announcements if they think there is a higher risk of these things happening. They use a larger number of minutes if they think the risk is lower. ...

Doomsday Clock Looms Larger In 2017

... Looms Larger in 2017. January 1, 2017 by Kermit Zarley Leave a Comment. The metaphorical Doomsday Clock is an image of a clock with its hour and minute hands set close to midnight. It was created in 1947 by concerned American scientists who were members of the Manhattan Project that had created the atomic bomb. Two such bombs were then dropped on Japan that helped end WWII in late 1945. Only weeks afterwards, these scientists created the non-profit organization Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. They did so because, even though they had created the atomic bomb, they worried about its awesome destructive power in the future. So, at the beginning of each new year, its board members, which include 18 Nobel Laureates, decide how close to midnight the clock should be set based on the possibility of a very serious global catastrophe. Since the clock’s creation, nothing has been of more grave concern to these scientists and their sponsors than nuclear weapons. But, manmade global ...

World Half A Minute Closer To Armageddon, Doomsday Clock Scientists Say

... away, according to scientists behind the Doomsday Clock. The new "time" was brought forward by 30 seconds, the clock's keepers announced from Washington DC on Thursday. The Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists, an expert group formed in 1945, takes into account the likelihood of nuclear Armageddon as well as other emerging threats such as climate change and advances in biotechnology and artificial intelligence. In a statement the Bulletin's executive director Rachel Bronson, said: " Today's complex global environment is in need of deliberate and considered policy responses. "It is ever more important that senior leaders across the globe calm rather than stoke tensions that could lead to war, either by accident or miscalculation.". The world is now a more dangerous place than it was a year ago, the scientists said, referring directly ...

It’s Now The Closest It’s Been To Midnight Since The 1950s

... predecessor should hearten companies targeted by the FTC such as Amazon , Apple , and Google. • The president also tapped Republicans, Victoria Lipnic and Philip Miscimarra to head the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), respectively, as acting chairs. They're both seen as business-friendly: "Phil and Vicki will have more of an orientation to the interests of the employer in trying to find a balance as opposed to an advocate on behalf of employees that may not have that sense of balance," Michael Lotito, who co-chairs Little Mendelson's Workplace Policy Institute, told the Hill. • One of Trump's executive orders that he signed yesterday stripping non-citizens of their privacy rights threatens the US-EU Data Shield agreement. That agreement allows the transfer of Europeans' personal data to the US while making ...

The Doomsday Clock Just Advanced, ‘thanks To Trump

... here.”. [ Scientists feel ignored by the Trump administration — and they’re alarmed ]. Rachel Bronson, the Bulletin's executive director and publisher, said threats such as climate change are being compounded by “a growing disregard for scientific expertise.”. “There is a troubling propensity to discount, or outright reject, expert advice related to international security, including the conclusions of intelligence experts,” she said. “The board concludes in no uncertain terms that words matter in ensuring the safety and security of our planet.”. Thomas Pickering, a former undersecretary of state who also served as ambassador to the United Nations and Israel, cited Trump's “casual talk” about nuclear weapons in telling reporters that “nuclear rhetoric is now loose and destabilizing.”. “We are more than ever impressed ...

Will The Apocalyptic Doomsday Clock Move Closer To Midnight

... Post to Facebook. Will the apocalyptic Doomsday Clock move closer to midnight? The Doomsday Clock may move closer to midnight on Thursday.   Check out this story on __link__: __link__ jql Ldo. Cancel Send. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs. This story is part of Climate change. Will the apocalyptic Doomsday Clock move closer to midnight. USA Today Network Mary Bowerman , USA TODAY Network 2:51 p.m. ET Jan. 25, 2017. Will the Doomsday Clock move closer to midnight this year. (Photo: Getty Images). The apocalypse may be near. The Doomsday Clock may move closer to midnight on Thursday amid increasingly tense relations between world powers. The clock, which stands as a symbolic countdown to the world’s end, has remained at three minutes until midnight for the past two years, marking the closest to midnight the clock has been since 1984 during the Cold War. Previous to that, the closest the clock got to midnight was two minutes to midnight in 1953, when the ...

The Doomsday Clock's Ticked Off Thanks To Trump

... revealed the official title of the sequel to "The Force Awakens" on the __link__ website, along with its December. Play video. Hugo Barra quits Xiaomi to return to Silicon Valley. 1:16 January 23, 2017. The former Android leader spent the last 3.5 years on a mission to bring global fame to the Chinese phone maker, Xiaomi. Play video. Samsung explains why the Note 7 exploded. 2:09 January 22, 2017. The phone was plagued by two separate battery manufacturing faults that affected the first and second shipments of the doomed. Play video. Explaining the Note 7's battery flaws (with cake). 2:31 January 22, 2017. Bridget Carey finds a sweet way to illustrate Samsung's findings on why the Galaxy Note 7 overheated, and what the company. Play video. Trump trades in Android for a mystery phone. 1:16 January 20, 2017. President Donald Trump has been issued an unidentified handset that's been approved by the Secret Service. But can it ...

Doomsday Clock Clicks Half A Minute Toward Midnight

... Paris Jackson’s  recent profile in Rolling Stone  and Was. Not. Having. It. And she laid out the interview in front of her studio audience yesterday, beginning with, “Can we talk? I mean real talk.”. She began rejecting the idea that Paris has a Rolling Stone cover at all,  claiming she’s only there because of her father.  Williams said, “She has not made her mark on her own. You cannot be on the cover of one of the most prestigious entertainment magazines and just be the daughter of.”. That’s a big charge, and she didn't back down. Williams appeared most upset about Jackson identifying as black, after her father supposedly raised her that way. “Black is not what you call yourself, it’s what cops see when they got steel to your neck on the turnpike. But that’s cute, and good for her,” she said, condescendingly. Then, Williams sarcastically congratulated Jackson on being the “first black woman on the cover” in more than a ...

Doomsday Clock' Moves Closer To Midnight; Trump Largely Blamed

... of newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump to impede progress in nuclear disarmament and climate change was a key factor in deciding the time change. The new president, they acknowledge, also can single-handedly help send the hands of the doomsday clock moving backwards to safety. Providing an 'opening'. 'We have to give him the opening,' former U. S. ambassador to Russia Thomas Pickering told VOA when asked whether he believes Trump will be swayed by news of the clock's advance to midnight. 'Hopefully he will hear' the suggestions from scientists and others advocating a re-start of arms reduction talks with Russia and raising the alarm about the effects of climate change. Other factors affecting the clock's movement this year are the growing risks from cyberattacks and emerging technologies in life sciences. The Doomsday Clock has faced criticism over the decades as more art than science. Its 'back and forth' movement is ridiculed, while the scientists behind it are labeled scaremongers. 'When it comes to nuclear weapons people have become complacent,' Krauss told VOA. 'So we owe it to the world to risk being labeled scaremongers just to ...