{"id":704,"date":"2023-04-08T13:09:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/r3ready.com\/?p=704"},"modified":"2023-05-14T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T10:37:09","slug":"for-the-first-time-in-human-history-we-are-90-seconds-to-midnite-on-the-doomsday-clock-let-that-sink-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r3ready.com\/es\/for-the-first-time-in-human-history-we-are-90-seconds-to-midnite-on-the-doomsday-clock-let-that-sink-in\/","title":{"rendered":"For the first time in human history, we are 90 seconds to midnite on the doomsday clock. Let that sink in."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.truth11.com\/ninety-seconds-to-midnight\/\"><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ninety Seconds To Midnight<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.truth11.com\/author\/dylan\/\">Dylan Eleven<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Jan 26, 20237 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.getmidnight.com\/6908ab1f9a9ecdaba4ee2509cb3451aa\/size\/w1000\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-26-at-8.36.39-AM.png\" alt=\"Ninety Seconds To Midnight\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.getmidnight.com\/6908ab1f9a9ecdaba4ee2509cb3451aa\/size\/w1000\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-26-at-8.36.39-AM.png\" alt=\"Ninety Seconds To Midnight\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Hardly Anyone Is Thinking Logically About the Risk of Nuclear War<\/strong><br><strong>LewRockwell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Caitlin Johnstone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its symbolic Doomsday Clock to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/24\/doomsday-clock-at-record-90-seconds-to-midnight-amid-ukraine-crisis?ref=truth11.com\">ninety seconds to midnight<\/a>, the closest it has ever been set since its founding after the second world war. Chief among their reasons for doing so is the <a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/us-may-help-ukraine-launch-an-offensive?ref=truth11.com\">increasingly dangerous<\/a> war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/thebulletin.org\/doomsday-clock\/current-time\/?ref=truth11.com\">statement<\/a> authored by the Bulletin\u2019s editor John Mecklin is as biased against Russia as any mainstream western punditry today and makes no mention of the US empire\u2019s role in <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2023\/01\/08\/caitlin-johnstone-unprovoked\/?ref=truth11.com\">provoking<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/us-rejection-of-moscows-offer-for?ref=truth11.com\">prolonging<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/the-claim-that-the-ukraine-war-advances?ref=truth11.com\">benefiting<\/a> from this conflict, yet it still provides a fairly reasonable appraisal of the magnitude of the threat we\u2019re staring down the barrel of at this point in history:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>This year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward, largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine. The Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight\u2014the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The war in Ukraine may enter a second horrifying year, with both sides convinced they can win. Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and broader European security arrangements that have largely held since the end of World War II are at stake. Also, Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine has raised profound questions about how states interact, eroding norms of international conduct that underpin successful responses to a variety of global risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And worst of all, Russia\u2019s thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict\u2014by accident, intention, or miscalculation\u2014is a terrible risk. The possibility that the conflict could spin out of anyone\u2019s control remains high.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Mecklin encourages dialogue between Russia, Ukraine and NATO powers in order to de-escalate tensions in \u201cthis time of unprecedented global danger.\u201d He quotes UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-covid-health-antonio-guterres-2871563e530f9a676d7884b3e2d871c3?ref=truth11.com\">warned last August<\/a> that the world has entered \u201ca time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Doomsday Clock is now at 90 seconds to midnight, meaning the world is closer than ever to global catastrophe. Isn\u2019t this enough reason to call for negotiations in Ukraine??? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/peaceinUkraine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=truth11.com\">#peaceinUkraine<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HvZPjmvRfI?ref=truth11.com\">https:\/\/t.co\/HvZPjmvRfI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/medeabenjamin\/status\/1617983970376912897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=truth11.com\">January 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>We <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/h9eVt?ref=truth11.com\">came a hair\u2019s breadth<\/a> from nuclear annihilation during the chaotic and unpredictable brinkmanship at the height of the last cold war, and in fact had <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_nuclear_close_calls?ref=truth11.com\">numerous close calls<\/a> that could have easily wound up going another way. As former Secretary of State Dean Acheson <a href=\"https:\/\/chss.gmu.edu\/articles\/4198?ref=truth11.com\">put it<\/a>, humanity survived the Cuban Missile Crisis by \u201cplain dumb luck\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s no logical basis for the belief that we\u2019ll get lucky again. Believing nuclear war won\u2019t happen because it didn\u2019t happen last time is a type of fallacious reasoning known as <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/0xyXC?ref=truth11.com#selection-133.0-133.125\">normalcy bias<\/a>; it\u2019s as rational as believing Russian roulette is safe because the man handing you the pistol didn\u2019t blow his head off when he pulled the trigger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that\u2019s the kind of sloppy thinking you\u2019ll run into when you try to discuss this subject in public; I\u2019m always encountering arguments that there\u2019s no risk of nuclear war because we\u2019ve gone all this time without disaster. One of the reasons I engage so much on social media is that I find it\u2019s a good way of keeping tabs on the dominant propaganda narratives in our civilization and understanding what people are thinking and believing about things, and nowhere have I encountered more fuzzbrained comments than the times I\u2019ve written about the need to prevent an entirely preventable nuclear holocaust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most common response I get is something along the lines of \u201cWell if there is a nuclear war it will be Putin\u2019s fault,\u201d as though whose \u201cfault\u201d it is will matter to us while we\u2019re watching the world end, along with the related \u201cWell Russia shouldn\u2019t have invaded then\u201d and \u201cWell Russia should stop threatening to use nukes then.\u201d People genuinely don\u2019t seem to understand that in the event of a full-scale nuclear war, it will really be <a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2022\/03\/16\/the-huge-gap-between-how-serious-nuclear-war-is-and-how-seriously-its-being-taken\/?ref=truth11.com\">the end of everyone<\/a>. They still kind of imagine everyone still being there and shaking their fists at Russia afterward, and themselves sitting there feeling self-righteous and vindicated for correctly saying what a bad, bad man Vladimir Putin is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They don\u2019t understand that there will be no pundits discussing the nuclear armageddon on Fox and MSNBC, arguing about whose fault it was and which political party is to blame. They don\u2019t get that there won\u2019t be any war crimes tribunals in the radioactive ashes as the biosphere <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2022\/03\/14\/nucl-m14.html?ref=truth11.com\">starves to death in nuclear winter<\/a>. They don\u2019t understand that once the nukes start flying, nobody\u2019s shoulds or shouldn\u2019ts about it will matter at all, and neither will your political opinions about Putin. All that will matter is that it happened, and that it can\u2019t be taken back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>US May Help Ukraine Launch An Offensive On Crimea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAre US officials willing to bet the life of every terrestrial organism that the course of action they\u2019re considering won\u2019t trigger a chain of events leading to the end of the world?\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IeBQlmKhnO?ref=truth11.com\">https:\/\/t.co\/IeBQlmKhnO<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitoz\/status\/1615919295934128129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=truth11.com\">January 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Another common response when I talk about the looming threat of nuclear war is, \u201cOh so you just don\u2019t care about Ukrainians and you want them all to die.\u201d The other day some lady responded to a Twitter thread I made about the need to avoid nuclear armageddon by saying that I must love rape and war crimes. People sincerely believe that\u2019s a valid response to a discussion about the need to prevent the single worst thing that could possibly happen from happening. It really doesn\u2019t seem to occur to them that they\u2019re not actually engaging the subject at hand in any real way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slightly more perceptive interlocutors will argue that if we back down to tyrants just because they have nuclear weapons then everyone will try to get nukes and those who have them will become more belligerent, which will end up making nuclear war more likely in the long run. This response is a straw man fallacy because it misrepresents the argument as \u201cjust back down\u201d rather than a call to engage in diplomacy and dialogue to de-escalate and begin sincerely negotiating toward detente, none of which is happening to any meaningful extent in this conflict. More importantly, it pretends that Russia is just invading its neighbor out of the blue instead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/opinion\/russia-ukraine-us-invasion-paved-how?ref=truth11.com\">well-documented reality<\/a> that it is in fact responding to <a href=\"https:\/\/mate.substack.com\/p\/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia?ref=truth11.com\">provocations by the US empire<\/a>. The US has a moral obligation to de-escalate a conflict it knowingly provoked to advance its own interests, especially when that conflict could kill everyone in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole \u201cWe can\u2019t just back down to bullies like Putin\u201d line of argumentation is further invalidated by the fact that it\u2019s one thing to draw a line in the sand that must never be crossed \u2014 even if in the face of armageddon \u2014 but it\u2019s quite another to say that line should be over something as small as <a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2023\/01\/19\/us-may-help-ukraine-launch-an-offensive-on-crimea\/?ref=truth11.com\">who governs Crimea<\/a>. This planet is populated with eight billion humans and countless other sentient creatures, very few of whom care one way or another who governs Crimea and almost none of whom would be willing to watch their loved ones die over it. Wanting to draw the line there is obnoxious, arrogant, and absurd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s just the shoddy brainwork of the rank-and-file public; the thinking of those who actually got us into this situation is surely just as dogshit. From what I can tell standing on this side of the thick veils of government secrecy which separate us from the truth, it appears to arise predominantly from a combination of immense hubris and zealous groupthink; hubris to think they can control all possible outcomes in a game of brinkmanship with so many small, unpredictable moving parts, and zealous groupthink in mindlessly adhering to the imperial doctrine that US unipolar planetary hegemony must be secured at all cost. They\u2019re playing games with the life of every creature on this planet, and anyone who thinks that\u2019s smart or wise should be as far from such decisions as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Huge Gap Between How Serious Nuclear War Is And How Seriously It\u2019s Being Taken<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSometimes I\u2019m not sure what presents a greater threat to humanity, nuclear war or the colossal stupidity that has made it possible.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3zq8EprE9d?ref=truth11.com\">https:\/\/t.co\/3zq8EprE9d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitoz\/status\/1503904023937953797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=truth11.com\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The logical faceplants I\u2019m describing here seem to arise partly from the fact that our civilization is completely <a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2022\/07\/12\/three-illuminating-quotes-about-the-war-in-ukraine\/?ref=truth11.com\">inundated with empire propaganda<\/a> about this conflict, and partly from the fact that people just haven\u2019t thought terribly hard about nuclear war and what it would mean. The latter is probably because the prospect of everyone dying horrifically is such a huge, heavy, uncomfortable subject to sit down and deeply grapple with to the extent that it demands. For most people it\u2019s just this vague, blurry mass in the periphery of their awareness, because they\u2019ve been doing all these weird mental gymnastics to squirm and compartmentalize away from this thing rather than facing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if ever there was a time to start doing some rigorous independent thinking and stop trusting the authorities to sort things out, it would be now. They\u2019re showing us every sign that they\u2019re just going to keep ramping up these games of nuclear chicken until they either fill their bottomless need for more complete global control or get us all killed trying. People need to start waking up to what\u2019s going on and start making things uncomfortable for the people who are driving our world toward total destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It does not need to be this way. Peace talks are possible. Diplomacy, de-escalation and detente are possible. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. We need to start building some public pressure to end this madness, because if the mushroom clouds ever show up, there is not one person alive who in that moment will believe that it was worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2023\/01\/no_author\/hardly-anyone-is-thinking-logically-about-the-risk-of-nuclear-war\/?ref=truth11.com\">https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2023\/01\/no_author\/hardly-anyone-is-thinking-logically-about-the-risk-of-nuclear-war\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ninety Seconds To Midnight  <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.truth11.com\/ninety-seconds-to-midnight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">https:\/\/www.truth11.com\/ninety-seconds-to-midnight\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety Seconds To Midnight Dylan Eleven Jan 26, 20237 min Hardly Anyone Is Thinking Logically About the Risk of Nuclear WarLewRockwell Caitlin Johnstone The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its symbolic Doomsday Clock to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been set since its founding after the second world war. 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