This year’s End Clock statement landed like a wet squibb on January 28th in the news cycle of large Donald Trump companies. Atomic Scientist (BAS) bulletin reported that the hand of the clock, ranging from 90 seconds to 89, moved a second ago. From the second to midnight. This must have come as a relief to the few masses who heard about it.
However, this minimal advancement in the hands of watches was a bizarre and misleading top line for Bulletin’s actual end-of-life statement.
This disconnect between the hand movement of the end clock and the threat assessment underlying the breaking news is extremely troublesome. If the placement of the clock’s hands does not accurately reflect the severity of the danger it represents, the powerful symbolism of the end clock is lost, and Albert Einstein, J. It undermines the very purpose that Robert Oppenheimer and their colleagues invented it.
A new clock statement has begun. “In 2024, humanity approached a catastrophe. The deep concern (US) continues, and despite unmistakable signs of danger, national leaders and their society are needed to change courses. I failed to do that.”
The former atomic scientist created the Apocalyptic Clock to represent the human suicide march towards the disappearance of nuclear war. It is the biggest danger that midnight on the clock represents, despite the current incorporation of climate change, biological threats and additional dangers of destructive technology.
Wars between Ukraine and the Middle East accelerate nuclear destruction
The 2025 clock statement’s threat assessment begins with a warning that war in Ukraine is “still approaching the world” and that “can always be at the core due to a rash decision or accident or miscalculation.” It starts with.
It was this danger of escalating to a nuclear war over Ukraine that moved the clock’s hands forward by 10 seconds in January 2023.
Since then, despite President Joe Biden’s warning in 2022 that the war between Russia and the US is a suicide Third World War, where we must make every sacrifice, the US and NATO. Designed and blown up all the voluntary “red line” to prevent it, providing Ukraine with approval to use tanks, F-16 fighters, long-range missiles, and Ukraine as well Masu.
The role of US and NATO officials in targets, planning, surveillance, intelligence and secret “special operations” including Western weapons has been extended to the war between the US and Russia that Biden has promised to avoid.
Therefore, we cannot understand the breaking decision to move the Doomsday Clock’s hands, as if these developments in the war between NATO and Russia are far less than we do to self-destruction. Two years ago.
The clock statement addresses the crisis in the Middle East. In January 2023, when the Breaking News last moved forward the watch’s hands, the US and Israel were enjoying false sense of safety and normality in the area.
Now, since the October 2023 Palestinian breakout and Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a new end-of-Article Clock statement warns that “conflicts in the Middle East threaten to have no warning and no control over the spiral towards a wider war.” I’m doing it.
Nuclearly armed Israel threatens to launch a massive war with Iran, ready to use nuclear weapons before accepting existential defeat in such a war, and to support the Israeli war and the US in genocide It is correct to warn that BAS this can be out of control at any time, as there are no true restrictions. However, it also seems that it ignored this danger with a tick one second before the end clock.
All other reasons to move your hands forward
These fierce conflicts, including nuclear-armed states, could be the most dangerous current flashpoint of nuclear war, but what’s more clear than the US-led decision to expand nuclear power is , none of which reflects the relentless nature of our accelerated march. And even if they complete the dismantling of all Cold War era weapons control treaties and nuclear protection measures, they will “modernize” their nuclear weapons.
The 2025 End Clock statement reveals that Breaking News analysts understand this too well.
“Nationals that own nuclear weapons are increasing the size and role of their arsenals, investing hundreds of billions of dollars in weapons that can destroy civilizations. The nuclear weapon control process is falling apart, and during nuclear power, High levels of contact are completely insufficient given the dangers at hand.”
Still, they argue that the relentless advances in these end-of-day plans over the past two years have only finished us a second. How about that?
The next final sentence in the nuclear weapons paragraph addresses the dangers of nuclear proliferation. This is a widely predicted result of the failure of nuclear forces to pursue true nuclear disarmament.
“To my surprise, it’s no longer unusual for a nuclear-weaponless nation to consider developing its own arsenal, like undermining years of non-enhancing efforts and increasing the way in which a nuclear war begins. .”
The next paragraph in the Doomsday Clock Statement addresses the risks of the climate crisis. Global greenhouse gas emissions are still rising, explaining that global temperatures are still rising, causing extreme weather, floods, tropical cyclones, heat waves, droughts and wildfires Masu.
“The long-term prognosis for the world’s attempts to deal with climate change remains poor,” it says.
But this is another tragic warning that is not reflected in the hands of the Apocalypse.
Regarding biological threats, the Clock’s statement states, “Perhaps highly highly biological laboratories continue to be built around the world, but the surveillance system for them has not maintained a pace. “It is increasing the likelihood that pathogens with a potential pandemic will flee. Rapid advances in artificial intelligence have increased the risk that terrorists and countries will achieve the ability to design biological weapons where there is no countermeasure.”
In destructive technology, “systems that incorporate artificial intelligence into military targeting are being used in Ukraine and the Middle East, with several countries moving to integrate artificial intelligence into the military. Such efforts are It raises questions about the extent to which machines capable of making decisions that could kill on a vast scale, including those related to the use of nuclear weapons, are allowed to make military decisions.”
The strange decision to move the end clock forward by a second appears to be a hedge against the possibility that all these current trends will continue, but by miracle, none of them actually destroy us all. You will not be successful in. . This can predict a bit of calamity that predicts the calamity of the shy chicken, despite the hand of the Apocalypse Clock properly moving forward within seconds of midnight.
But this idea beats the very purpose of the end clock. This is to raise alarms with policymakers and the public about the dangerous courses we are in. The existential dangers we face are far too realistic. What our institutions have not been able to deal with and resolve them is the most terrible suicide failure in our species history.
In suppressing the responsibility to warn the gravity of these dangers, BAS has made Einstein and Oppenheimer’s sanity call to normalize yet another suicide madness of our 21st century rulers. You risk turning it into a mechanism.
Trump is calling for nuclear disarmament
The breaking news appears to have participated in all other mainstream institutions in American society: the White House, Congress, the military industrial complex, Republican and Democrat parties, Corporate Media, Wall Street and the Academia. The corrupt ruling class calms the masses to dream of extinction.
Surprisingly, the Atomic Scientist’s Breaking News appears to have abandoned the founder’s commitment to the urgency of nuclear disarmament, but President Trump is the best diplomatic man who ends the nuclear arms race, or the US president. I clearly recognize that this is an achievement.
In Offcuff’s remarks during a video call to the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 23rd, Trump suddenly raised an attractive prospect of nuclear disarmament negotiations with Russia and China. Speaking about the phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump explained in detail:
“We wanted to see denuclearization (Trump and xi?); in fact, President Putin was frankly ridiculous before the election results, so we’re denuclearized both countries. We were talking about. China is now much smaller than us and we are, and has more nuclear armaments than us, but they will catch up at some point over the next four or five years.”
“And President Putin says he really liked the idea of cutting out a way to get back to nuclear, and I think it’s the rest of the world, we’d have to follow them. And China would have come along with him, and China liked it too. There’s a huge amount of money spent on the nuclear power, and the destructive ability doesn’t want to talk about it today either, because you don’t want to hear it. It’s just too depressing.”
“So we want to see if we can denuclearize. I think that’s very possible. And President Putin can tell you that he wanted to do that. And I wanted to do that. We had a good conversation with China. They would have been involved and that would have been incredible for the planet. And I thought I hope it can be started again.”
What Trump says in these unscripted comments is encouraging. President XI appears to have reminded Trump of the debate during his first term, and has turned his attention to the ultimate “elephant in the room” hanging from our heads for at least a while.
Peace Clock
When the world’s fate is soundly slept in the hands of an unpredictable US president and besieged bus, CodePink, which fulfills the powerful symbolism of its end clock, is the unstable era in which we live , that is, they created an alternative to the peace clock. Instead of counting down the minutes and seconds of our extinction, the Peace Clock is asking the US government to take a series of specific, specific steps towards nuclear disarmament.
It begins with agreeing to Russia and China’s proposals on the ban on arms in space and reviving the 1972 Russian Treaty. With such concrete and practical steps, the clock of peace will step by step make the world safer and more secure, and not the sixth final stage, but faster than ever to reach full nuclear disarmament of all nuclear weapons’ powers I’ll guide you.
(Lee Thompson-Kolar edited this work.)
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