journal Bulletin of Atomic Scientists did not translate arrows so-called “doomsday clock”. In its report of 13 January, which is also a reference to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the publication states that the world is five minutes from the nuclear disaster. In this position, the arrows are from 2012.
Commenting on his decision, analysts have pointed out that last year the international community has taken steps to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons. For example, some countries have reduced stocks of materials suitable for making nuclear bombs, and tightened security at nuclear facilities. Emphasized the interim agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. However, these measures were not enough to move the arrow back, say the authors of the publication.
In particular, Russia, USA, China, India and Pakistan continue to possess nuclear arsenals, which increases with time. Analysts and reminded about the accident at Japan’s Fukushima. In addition, since 2007, the magazine reflects the change in the planet’s climate. Now the world faces global warming, the increase in carbon dioxide and sea level rise. All these factors indicate that the threat to humanity remains high, according to the authors.
Journal Bulletin of Atomic Scientists osnoali in 40-ies of the last century, scientists, University of Chicago. At one time they were working on the atomic bomb, but after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki became convinced pacifists. First symbolic “Doomsday Clock”, showing seven minutes to midnight, appeared on the pages of the magazine in 1947. Since clocks are moved twenty times. Minimum value, two minutes to midnight, they showed in 1953, when the U.S. and the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb.
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