Why The World Is Closer Than Ever To Doomsday
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which was founded by those who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and now includes 13 Nobel Laureates on the board, issued a statement on Thursday that read, “Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential dangers—nuclear war and climate change—that are compounded by a threat multiplier, cyber-enabled information warfare, that undercuts society’s ability to respond.
Opinion by Ban Ki-Moon, Mary Robinson, Jerry Brown and William J. Perry. CNN. January 24, 2020.
Why The Doomsday Clock Is Wrong
Though this criticism does not mention “climate change”
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists recently moved its Doomsday Clock to just two minutes until midnight — the closest the clock has come to the destruction of the world since the United States and Soviet Union tested thermonuclear bombs in 1953. Yet how, one could reasonably ask, could the world be more dangerous than it was during the height of the Cold War, even during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962? Based on any objective view of world events, the Doomsday Clock should be moving backward or at least staying the same. Instead, the clock is being propelled inexorably forward by the Bulletin’s overwhelmingly liberal interpretation of world events.
By Patty-Jane Geller. The National Interest. January 30, 2020.
