Will the Doomsday Clock be moved up?

Question

Since 1947, the Physicists at the "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" have moved the Doomsday Clock closer to/further from doomsday (i.e. midnight) in relation to the world's state of affairs.

Given that the Physicists didn't consider moving up the clock in 2003 before the Iraq war, but are considering moving up the clock in response to North Korea, do you think (and I know this is a stretch) that a bunch of dorky looking Nobel Laureate Physicists are smarter and wiser than George W. Bush? Just a thought...

http://www.thebulletin.org/doomsday_clock/timeline.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061017/ts_afp/nkoreanuclearweapons_061017152150

I don't know if someone who supported the Iraq war - which alluded to impending "mushroom clouds" - should employ the word "alarmist" in this discussion...again, just a thought...

Answer 1

I'll answer your second question first. I think almost anyone is smarter than Bush. He thinks he's sly as a fox but he's dumb as a stump. He's being used by all those rich guys to do their dirty work and can't see the harm he's doing to this country and the world. And finally, yes , the clock should be moved up.

Answer 2

i can not stay my existence in concern, even though it quite is a concern. I enroll in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the magazine which runs the Doomsday Clock. I figured that the Clock could desire to be being replaced for the reason that I have been given a postcard telling me an "considerable fact" could be made on the instant and that my next concern could arrive quite overdue because of the fact of it. the ingredient of the clock is to not instill concern, in basic terms a warning. The arms are symbolic in that there is a much better probability of civilization being destroyed.

Answer 3

Does a lunatic with a few bombs really threaten the world. I don't think so.

Back in the day when US and the Soviets had mutual assured destruction pointed at each others head with the hammers ****** that we were always at the 11:59:00.

I don't believe that if the North Koreans gave a bomb to terrorist and they smuggled it across the border. Placed it in an ambulance and set it off at a Denver Bronco' s football game. I don't think we'd bomb them. Whats worse is I don't think the Iranians or the Korean's think we would either.

We are going to have to change that calcuation if our nukes are going to be a credible deterrent. Otherwise we may as well get rid of them.

Your answer is No.

Answer 4

Ok, let me get this straight. Korea tried to send a missile, who knows where a few months ago, and it got no where. Now they are conducting nuclear tests underground. Ok, sounds like they need to work on their rocket technology, a lot still for anything to happen. And if N Korea keeps this **** up, I doubt Japan or China will take the BS too much longer

Answer 5

Alarmists. They have been wrong since 1980. They had the end of times the day Reagan got in office. They didn't forsee the END of the cold war.

The problem with academics is they know a lot about what they know, once they are out fo their realm they tend to be quite ineffective thinkers.

Answer 6

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