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The Doomsday Clock was last updated January 2025, I remember having watched it live when the update was announced. But it’s pretty much out of date at this point, especially due to news from the most recent few weeks.
While we’re “just” two months from the next update (yeah, time flies), perhaps the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists should consider updating it every three months or, even, every month…
…even though the Doomsday Clock have been had a similar role and power that of UN: none at all, they can’t even stop nuclear countries from pushing the juicy fan-with-three-blades passion-colored button, shall any of these countries decide doing it for the sake of it.
Which reminds me of a joke: “What’s the difference between a rock and the UN? A rock can be thrown during a tantrum, at least”. Similarly, “What do the Doomsday Clock and a sundial have in common? Both can’t tell you the time during the night time”.
If I see a mushroom cloud I’m running towards it. No need to go to work, no need to pay back mortgage.
Just wait, the shockwave will get to you soon enough.
Honestly? Not very.
I grew up in the 1980’s doing duck-and-cover drills in school until the Berlin Wall came down. Growing up a science nerd who practically lived at the library, it was pretty obvious that duck-and-cover would do jack-and-shit if anybody ever pressed the big red button. So, I had to come to terms with the possibility that somebody might nuke where I grew up, probably far too early than was good for my mental health.
What it comes down to is this: In the unlikely event that somebody pops off a nuclear weapon, there is precisely dick that you, I, or anybody else likely to read this thread could do about it. It’s way above any of our pay grades, to steal a phrase. The only thing you can really do is take heart in the fact that there is nothing you did to cause it and nothing you can do to stop it, just like a solar flare or a gamma ray burst. The best you can hope for is that you’re somewhere in the first two blast radii because the most likely outcome is a bright flash, and that’ll be that. No suffering, no radiation sickness, no cancer eating you alive months to years later.
I get that’s not the kind of response you’re looking for, and I can’t blame you for that. However, neither am I willing to lie. Nuclear war is possibly one of the most horrible things the human race is capable of, and there is no happy medium, nothing reassuring, nothing hopeful that can be said.
Hug your loved ones.
liberal bullshit
yes its the liberals fault. just take anything you don’t like and put “XYZ is liberals fault”
99% of the time it is
If we’re talking the bomb? Not very.
Climate change is a bigger fish to fry.
Climate change won’t end the world, though that isn’t to say it won’t make things hell on earth. Nuclear war however could very well end all life on earth.
Life would still exist. I don’t think there is anything humanity could do that would completely end life. There is life living tens of kilometers underground in the lithosphere and life in such remote caves that have been separated from all other environments for millions of years.
We could create and detonate about a ton of antimatter. That should be enough to crack the planet again.
/s
They mention climate change in their statement
It’s a real concern, but Ukraine war is proceeding to its just conclusion. EU will accept it better than they let on. It’s expected that world will allow US war on Venezuela without any compassion, just weapons profits. Because resisting US through proxy war is more profitable than sinking its air carrier battle group, through nuclear strike/torpedo, there is less risk of doomsday than 1-2 years ago. Europe will try to get nuked though.
Ukraine war is proceeding to its just conclusion
A million dead on both sides and a Ukraine that is never safe within our lives while Russian billionaires make bank and Ukrainian billionaires join Juan Guiado and Jair Bolsonaro in Miami is hardly justice.
Hell it’s not even a conclusion.
This clock thing is fucking stupid.
I’ve been watching this clock for 40 years, also watched it get enshitified the last 20 years.
It has always been a symbol of empire, run by many the same fools who enabled the madness. But the revolving door and who contributes got worse since the 1990s. And it’s just some thing now.
They may be wrong or correct, who am I to know. But not to be relied on, I think
Extremely concerned. The rise of facism always means mass death
if my nightmares last night are anything to go by, i must be concerned about that on some level.
I’m not nearly as concerned about global war as I am about Civil War. There are enough reasonable leaders on all sides that if the few really whacky ones get froggy, they’ll get dealt with.
The world biggest problem is the 800 pound gorilla in the White House. He’s everybody’s loose cannon.
At this point I just want closure, so either let’s all shoot each other nukes, or fucking begone with this danger close bullshit
It’s always been midnight.
I mean the article was in January and no world leader was randomly starting wars with other countries, showing incredible mental deterioration or talking about testing their nuclear missiles and asking if they would go to heaven so I’m sure it’s fine…
War is basically inevitable at this point
Whatever your stance on the Pedophile Felon President, basically all of his policies are inevitable going to destroy the economy of the USA. Once that happens, the only option would be to use force internally to control the people and internationally to literally steal what they need to stay afloat
The people of the USA are still deluding themselves that their military will be loyal to the people because they didn’t march super well for the Rapist in Chief that day… ignoring the military has followed every single idiotic order to date without as much as a follow up question
