Moving the clock hands of the Apocalypse, the Doomsday Clock (the Countdown to the End of the World)

Countdown to the End of the World. After two years of standby today have been moved to the hands of the Doomsday Clock, the clock 63 years that "moves" only in connection with a possible catastrophe risk. A metaphor of 'Apocalypse wanted by a group of atomic scientists in 1947. In the aftermath of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today, the hands are moved by one minute. Back. www.altrogiornale.org photos

Not many people know, yet there is a clock that keeps its hands fixed on the End of the World. It's called Time of ' Revelation (English Doomsday Clock) and was "created" by scientists of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago. It was 1947.

Two years earlier, on August 6, 1945 "Little Boy" (code name for the bomb Mk.1), exploded 580 meters from the city of Hiroshima. The rest you know. What we do not want to know is that from that time the risk of nuclear war became a reality. A really "impossible" to accept that the Doomsday Clock has become a symbol of the most disturbing ' Revelation of all time. The clock is there. Stands in the pages of a magazine that deals with issues related to global security and that is published without interruption since 1945. A white circle, where the minutes are marked by bullet holes and mark the hands a few minutes to midnight. A few minutes at the end. When the clock was thought of ' Revelation was set at seven minutes exactly Dall'Ora X. The midnight precisely. In 1953 came the catastrophe the hands of five minutes. The Russians testavano nuclear weapons without pause and without restraint. Scientists from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists realized that the situation was serious. Then those hands returned to their place and the world breathed a sigh of relief. Since then, however, the hands of the Doomsday Clock has been moved at least 17 other times.

Later, or earlier. Farther or closer from midnight of the World. Until that January 17, 2007 when the presence of 270 thousand nuclear weapons made him think that now a new nuclear threat was at hand. Five minutes Time on X. This is what marked the watch of ' Revelation until yesterday. Then, someone, has announced that it was time for the countdown rispostare virtual. Until this morning, little information about it. No one knew what would move the hands. Even if they had been moved forward or backward. He knew only that a scientific spokesman for the college had held that the factors that have influenced the hands were tied to international negotiations on nuclear disarmament, the expansion of Energy civilian nuclear threat of terrorism and climatic emergency. From a few hours all of these risks were evaluated by a committee of fewer than 18 Nobel laureates and the hands of the Doomsday Clock have moved for the twentieth time. But at last a minute behind. The event was announced only on your site http://www.turnbacktheclock.org./ . Nuclear weapons have declined by 4000 units in three years. "There are about 23,000 - has told the Washington Post Kennette Benedict director of the group - but Obama's attitude towards these issues has had its weight. " As of today there are 60 seconds of hope. In addition.

SONIA T. CAROBI of www.altrogiornale.org

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