{"id":30265,"date":"2018-01-27T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30265"},"modified":"2018-01-27T14:09:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T19:09:24","slug":"according-to-the-doomsday-clock-the-end-is-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30265","title":{"rendered":"According to the Doomsday Clock, the End Is Near"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Doomsday Clock, the End Is Near<\/a><\/h3>\n

The hypothetical \u201cDoomsday Clock\u201d is closer to midnight \u2013 the hour of doom \u2013 than it has been since 1953, the year that the US and the USSR both tested hydrogen bombs at the beginning of the global nuclear arms race.<\/p>\n

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) announced on Tuesday<\/a> that the time on the clock was now two minutes to midnight. The BAS is a group of science and policy experts who assess human advancement\u2026and risk\u2026say that we\u2019re getting alarmingly close to the Zero Hour. Their statement said:<\/p>\n

To: Leaders and citizens of the world<\/b>Re: Two minutes to midnight<\/b>Date: January 25, 2018<\/b><\/p>\n

In 2017, world leaders failed to respond effectively to the looming threats of nuclear war and climate change, making the world security situation more dangerous than it was a year ago\u2014and as dangerous as it has been since World War II.<\/p>\n

The greatest risks last year arose in the nuclear realm. North Korea\u2019s nuclear weapons program made remarkable progress in 2017, increasing risks to North Korea itself, other countries in the region, and the United States.Hyperbolic rhetoric and provocative actions by both sides have increased the possibility of nuclear war by accident or miscalculation.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the dangers brewing on the Korean Peninsula were not the only nuclear risks evident in 2017: The United States and Russia remained at odds, continuing military exercises along the borders of NATO, undermining the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), upgrading their nuclear arsenals, and eschewing arms control negotiations.<\/p>\n

In the Asia-Pacific region, tensions over the South China Sea have increased, with relations between the United States and China insufficient to re-establish a stable security situation.<\/p>\n

In South Asia, Pakistan and India have continued to build ever-larger arsenals of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

And in the Middle East, uncertainty about continued US support for the landmark Iranian nuclear deal adds to a bleak overall picture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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According to the Doomsday Clock, the End Is Near The hypothetical \u201cDoomsday Clock\u201d is closer to midnight \u2013 the hour of doom \u2013 than it has been since 1953, the year that the US and the USSR both tested hydrogen bombs at the beginning of the global nuclear arms race. The Bulletin of the Atomic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18187,130,6156,8206,3558,553,581,5837,694,1439,827,862],"class_list":["post-30265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bulletin-of-the-atomic-scientists","tag-china","tag-daisy-luther","tag-doomsday-clock","tag-korea","tag-nato","tag-nuclear-war","tag-organic-prepper","tag-russia","tag-south-china-sea","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30267,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30265\/revisions\/30267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}