8/31/2023 0 Comments Doomsday clock![]() ![]() “Nobody wants to be painted as a Cassandra, ‘we're running around saying the sky is falling’” she said. She calls the Doomsday Clock a “meme," a visual tool created by a panel that includes Nobel laureates meant to spur more research and advocacy. Squassoni also pushed back against the charge that the Doomsday Clock whips people into a “lather,” leading them to inaction because of the seeming futility of it all. “What we are suggesting is that all of the channels for dialogue need to be heavily used.” “It is absolutely not in anybody's interest that Russia simply subvert all of the rules of the so-called international order established after World War II,” she said. to pull back from its support of Ukraine. Squassoni says people should not conclude the Doomsday Clock’s warnings about nuclear war should take away from it the belief that fear of nuclear war should cause the U.S. Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy attended the meeting, with leaders reiterating support for Kyiv. The joint statement also justifies weapons that “serve defensive purposes, deter aggression and prevent war and coercion.” I think a panel of experts whose goal was not ‘let's terrify people,’ but whose goal was ‘let's accurately quantify the risk,’ could do a better job.” “But right now, it has no relation at all to the degree of risk. “There always has to be some guesswork,” he said in an interview. Pinker, a psychology professor at Harvard University, calls the clock’s accuracy “defective,” disputing the metrics used to determine its time to “midnight.” Steven Pinker, an author whose new book argues progress is on the rise, says of the Doomsday Clock, “the underlying attitude seems to be let's just whip people into a lather of fear and dread.” “I think the main message to take away is that the situation is urgent and steps need to be taken,” Squassoni told Spectrum News.īut others wonder whether armageddon is really all that near. Organizers of the Doomsday Clock also cite climate change for the increased movement toward midnight. basing nuclear weapons in such countries as Turkey, Italy, Belgium and Germany. Earlier this month, Russia and its neighbor Belarus formalized a deal to deploy Moscow’s tactical nuclear weapons there. The Ukraine war, and Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling, was seen as the main driver of the added vigilance. The number had never been higher, not even in the depths of the Cold War. ![]() In January, the “Doomsday Clock” was set at 90 seconds to midnight - midnight defined vaguely, if disturbingly, as “an atmosphere where civilization is no longer possible or where great swaths of it's going to be a world in which you are not going to want to live,” in Squassoni’s definition. ![]()
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