The Doomsday Clock is delayed one minutes

Posted Jan 14, 2010 by Eva
The Doomsday Clock - a clock that displays time metaphorically that is mankind from self-destruction - has been delayed a minute.
(UpVery.com) Jan 14, 2010 -- The Doomsday Clock - a clock that displays time metaphorically that is mankind from self-destruction - has been delayed a minute. The minute mark now six to midnight, which is a small breakthrough in nuclear disarmament issues. This watch, designed in 1947 following the atomic explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has only been updated 18 times.

It is the first time in nearly two decades that the clock is slow. The longest distance had this indicator was in 1991 (17 minutes to midnight), when the Soviet Union and United States signed the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions. Thereafter, recent events have only made the watch you gain minutes: the not decrease post-Cold War military spending (1995, -3), the nuclear tests by India and Pakistan (1998, -5), rupture U.S. with the ABM Treaty as a result of the attacks of 9 / 11 (2002, -2) and the more recent nuclear tests in North Korea (2007, -2).

According to the group of atomic scientists behind the Doomsday Clock - which includes 19 Nobel laureates, with the likes of Stephen Hawking - international cooperation and the recent awareness of climate deterioration represents a setback (minimum) to self-destruction human.

The arrival of Obama to the White House has meant a significant change in the U.S. international position, much doomed to bargain than his predecessor, George W. Bush. This new government has resumed talks with Russia on disarmament, including negotiations with Iran to the closure of its nuclear enrichment program. While advances are far from reaching this height, involve an approach to multilateralism, to the detriment of Bush's unilateralism in foreign policy.

For more information on the current threat of nuclear bombs, I recommend the very comprehensive report of the political scientist John Mueller in Foreign Policy: "Think Again: Nuclear Weapons" (in English).

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