Doomsday Clock moves backwards for first time ever!

A rare peice of good news. The doomsday clock (heavily featured in the Watchmen book and movie) maintained by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to represent how close the human race is to potential "catastrophic destruction" from global nuclear war, climate-change, or other life sciences that could inflicted irrevocable harm.

Those scientists decided yesterday that "For the first time since atomic bombs were dropped in 1945, leaders of nuclear weapons states are cooperating to vastly reduce their arsenals and secure all nuclear bomb-making material,". "And for the first time ever, industrialized and developing countries alike are pledging to limit climate-changing gas emissions that could render our planet nearly uninhabitable."

Very cool. I hope the assessment that we have taken a rare step in the right direction towards a more peaceful world is accurate.


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