That’s A Relief
link Scientists Push “Doomsday Clock” Back a Minute – ABC News
As if. These guys are scientists or closet politicians? This august body which includes 19 Nobel laureates have calculated that the threat of nuclear war is lessened because of the election of Barack Obama. There appears to be a bit of nepotism involved here because they just made Obama a fellow club member, but that’s a coincidence.
It appears that solely because of Obama’s residency in the White House, this group decides that an aggressive U.S. implementation of nuclear war is less likely. Oddly, after long google searches, there is the sum total of, zero, that is none, nada and zip instance of the U.S. ever threatening to embark upon nuclear annihilation of another country. Compare this to recent events where the statesman at Iran’s helm threatens to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and coincidentally is ramping up their nuclear program for ‘peaceful’ purposes. Taking these two facts into consideration, the Nobel gang thinks nuclear war is less likely.
I suppose if Iran began firing off nukes, it would not lead to nuclear warfare worldwide because in the west, tsk tsking is the preferred defence strategy. Fully armed with strong words of condemnation and columns of legal soldiers ready to fight the rhetorical war, the west has refined their methods of engagement. Any conflict would be much more civilized and instead of needless bloodshed by atomic bombs, the worst that could happen are paper cuts on a large scale by the legal protagonists. In which case, vinegar could be the scariest weapon. Judged by this standard, the U.S. is still the most powerful nation on earth based on lawyer count.
Nuclear physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy at news conference held at the National Academy of Sciences overlooking the World Trade Center site, said there had been “a shift in world opinion” recognizing that nuclear weapons are “no longer useful to fight wars and are not effective as deterrence.”
If that’s the case, why does the world care whether or not Iran is enriching uranium? Why threaten sanctions against their economy if nukes aren’t effective? If this is a case of them using bullets, while we have ray guns, let ’em have the bullets. Someone should tell North Korea too because I think they’re still playing with radioactive stuff over there.
BAS board member Lowell Sachnoff added, “Global warming is more of a threat than nuclear war.”
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Ok, now we’re suspicious. He had us going until he went there.