The Doomsday Clock
Doomsday Clock: Timeline | thebulletin.org
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published a “Doomsday Clock” since 1947… the clock is meant to be a representation of how close we are to nuclear war. The clock has stood at seven minutes to midnight since 2002. It looks like the best we’ve done is seventeen minutes to midnight in 1991, after the START treaty; the worst is two minutes in 1953 when the US and the Soviet Union both were testing nuclear weapons.
See also Doomsday Clock on Wikipedia.
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October 12th, 2006 at 10:21 am
[...] “Area experts” predict that the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists may move the minute hand on their doomsday clock forward at their November meeting, in response to North Korea’s having nuclear weapons. There is concern both in the current government having nuclear weapons and with what might happen to said weapons if the current government falls. [...]
January 17th, 2007 at 11:07 am
[...] As I’ve been listening to Muse’s album “Black Holes and Revelations” recently, “The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists” really sounds like a track title from the album. Alas, it’s not… it’s the group of people who maintain the the Doomsday Clock, which today they moved forward by 2 minutes in recognition of the possibility of catastrophic, civilization-ending change stemming from human technology. The clock now stands at five minutes to midnight. [...]