Since the fear of an all-out nuclear war has declined since the end of the Cold War, the Bureau of Atomic Scientists are in a desperate search for relevance and craving attention.
With a flourish of the dramatic, and massively overstating reality, they announced that this year Doomsday Clock moves closest to midnight in 73-year history.
Blink.
Yep, right now, according to the BAS we're at this very moment the closest we've come to annihilation ever.
As if.
With the threat of total nuclear annihilation at one of its lowest levels ever, with decent relations between the US and Russia, missiles off alert launch-on-warning status, the Bureau of Atomic scientists chose to advance the clock to the closest it has ever been to scary midnight, past even the highest tensions of the Cold War.
Why? Mission creep.
It's no longer all-out nuclear war they're warning about, but instead they've announced it's due to climate change and governments failing to do what they feel is good policy. Yes really from their FAQ:
In 2020, the Science and Security Board set the time to 100 seconds to midnight, largely because of worldwide governmental dysfunction in dealing with global threats. Before 2020, the closest the hand was set to midnight was two minutes; in 1953, after the United States and the Soviet Union each tested their first thermonuclear weapons within six months of one another, and 2018, largely due to nuclear risk and the rising threat of climate change.
Verily, the Bureau of Atomic Scientists' clock has just officially jumped the shark.
3 comments:
Yup, the BAS went all PC on us.....
Sigh... They're irrelevant today. Stick a cork in it folks.
Old NFO - they were pretty irrelevant back in the day, being yet another 'panic-crisis' organizaion funded by leftist powers in order to manipulate the West. And I wish it was just conspiracy-freak talky-talky, but it's true. (And I remember my dad mumbling about the long-haired commie freaks that ran that group of... long-haired commie freaks...)
As to the Doomsday Clock, at least I don't have to worry about massive flash and burn anymore for the most part. We are the safest from nuclear war that we've been since the 50's. We would be safer, but some dumb-butt president gave Iran a metric butt-load of money and in combination with all the secrets the Arkansas Duo sold to Red China, well... And I wish THAT was just conspiracy-freak talky-talky, but, dagnabit, that's all true, too.
Safe from the latest ChinaFlu2020 re-enacting the Spanish Influenza (which came from China in 1915-6)? Maybe not, but at least we don't have to worry about the Black Plague or Typhoid or Hanta or Polio (well, unless you live in certain cities where the homeless are serving as giant petrie dishes of Dooooom, well, maybe not Polio, but maybe so.) And I wish THAT also was just C-F T-T, but, oh Merde, that's also so darned true it's scary.
But, overall, other than having some Inner City Youths get all uppity in my grill or some person from the Religion of Pieces decide to Aloha Snackbar me, I am the safest I have ever been in my life. Well, unless the Dems manage to take over completely in both Florida and nationally and turn this place into a Merkel-ish paradise, and I so wish that was also just C-F T-T but, Jiminy Crickets, that's also so true that I'm just about to wear out the carpet on my bedside from praying.
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