{"id":30166,"date":"2018-01-25T18:03:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T23:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30166"},"modified":"2018-01-25T18:03:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T23:03:20","slug":"its-official-the-risk-of-nuclear-annihilation-is-at-an-all-time-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30166","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official! The Risk Of Nuclear Annihilation Is At An All-Time High"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-01-25\/risk-nuclear-annihilation-all-time-high\">It&#8217;s Official! The Risk Of Nuclear Annihilation Is At An All-Time High<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Don&#8217;t Panic. It&#8217;s only the <em><strong>end of the world&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid593150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nR0lOtdvqyg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Thursday,<strong> the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists raised the likelihood of an apocalyptic nuclear catastrophe to its highest level in the clock&#8217;s 70+-year history, <\/strong>the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2018\/01\/25\/after-a-missile-scare-and-insult-war-with-north-korea-its-time-to-check-the-doomsday-clock\/?utm_term=.43936b9becfb\">Washington Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/20180125_nukes1.jpg\" data-responsive-image-style=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/20180125_nukes1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"076b8160-33cc-4111-bd06-c8ff14651cc5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The clock was moved from two-and-a-half minutes to midnight to two minutes to midnight &#8211; like the classic Iron Maiden song&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid893902\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9qbRHY1l0vc\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>During a press conference announcing the escalation, the group of scientists comprising the Bulletin offered a <strong>&#8220;grim assessment&#8221; of the factors that preceded the increase:<\/strong> These factors included <strong>North Korea&#8217;s<\/strong> nuclear program, tensions between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-01-22\/40000-indians-flee-fighting-erupts-pakistan-border\"><strong>India and Pakistan<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/a>and <strong>Russia&#8217;s and China&#8217;s<\/strong> incorporation of nuclear drills into its military exercise.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s mercurial tweets were also cited in the report.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid149605\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/npzlvrV0uNQ\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The group which <strong>includes 15 Nobel Laureates<\/strong> said the risk of nuclear annihilation in the present day has surpassed previous highs witnessed during World War II, and during the most intense periods of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The organization &#8211; which has 15 Nobel Laureates on its board &#8211; now believes <strong>\u201cthe world is not only more dangerous now than it was a year ago; it is as threatening as it has been since World War II,\u201d<\/strong> Bulletin officials Lawrence M. Krauss and Robert Rosner wrote in an op-ed published Thursday by The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIn fact, the Doomsday Clock is as close to midnight today as it was in 1953, when Cold War fears perhaps reached their highest levels.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The last time the clock advanced so far, the United States had just tested its first thermonuclear device, and the Soviet Union had tested a hydrogen bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Bronson said, <strong>\u201cto call the world\u2019s nuclear situation dire is to understate the danger and its immediacy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With President Trump&#8217;s now infamous &#8220;Fire and Fury&#8221; remark reverberating in their ears, the committee said it also &#8220;considered at length&#8221; the unpredictability of US nuclear policy, which one member said &#8220;an unpredictability that is embodied in statements and tweets, by the US.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Official! The Risk Of Nuclear Annihilation Is At An All-Time High Don&#8217;t Panic. It&#8217;s only the end of the world&#8230; On Thursday, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists raised the likelihood of an apocalyptic nuclear catastrophe to its highest level in the clock&#8217;s 70+-year history, the Washington Post reported. 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