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Doomsday Clock changes Doom Time

// January 14th, 2010 // p2p

- | Cool:- Now we know. Will the Doomsday Clock be turned back? – p2pnet asked yesterday, posting: “The symbolic Doomsday Clock started ticking in 1947, wound up by the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago. The time is in minutes to midnight, “wherein midnight represents ‘catastrophic destruction’,” explains the Wikipedia . The clock was to be  changed, but forward or backward? “Citing a more ‘hopeful state of world affairs’ in relation to the twin threats posed by nuclear weapons and climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) is moving the minute hand of its famous Doomsday Clock one minute away from midnight. It is now 6 minutes to midnight,” says a statement . “The decision by the BAS Science and Security Board was made in consultation with the Bulletin’s Board of Sponsors, which includes 19 Nobel Laureates.” At 6 minutes to midnight, “ We are poised to bend the arc of history toward a world free of nuclear weapons,” says BAS, going on > > > 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.  These unprecedented steps are signs of a growing political will to tackle the two gravest threats to civilization — the terror of nuclear weapons and runaway climate change.” Next steps? The BAS says > > > Developing new nuclear doctrines that disavow the use of existing nuclear weapons, reduce the launch readiness of U.S. and Russian nuclear forces, and remove them from the day-to-day operations of their militaries; Finishing the job of consolidating and securing military and civilian nuclear material in Russia, the United States, and elsewhere and continuing to eliminate the excess; Completing negotiations, signing and ratifying as soon as possible the new U.S.-Russia treaty providing for reductions in deployed nuclear warheads and delivery systems; Upon signing of the treaty, immediately embarking upon new talks to further reduce the nuclear arsenals of Russia and the United States; Completing the next review of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in May 2010 with commitments to weapons reduction and nuclear nonproliferation by both the nuclear haves and have-nots; Implementing multinational management of the civilian nuclear energy fuel cycle with strict standards for safety, security, and nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, including eliminating reprocessing for plutonium separation; Strengthening the International Atomic Energy Agency’s capacity to oversee nuclear materials and technology development and transfer; Adopting and fulfilling climate change agreements to reduce carbon dioxide emissions through tax incentives, harmonized domestic regulation and practice; Transforming the coal power sector of the world economy to retire older plants; and Vastly increasing public and private investments in alternatives to carbon-emitting energy sources, such as solar and wind, and in technologies for energy storage, and sharing the results worldwide. Stay tuned. Clock Announcement 2010 from TurnBackTheClock.org on Vimeo . - … .. … and identi.ca More First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi p2pnet – Will the Doomsday Clock be turned back?, January 13, 2010 Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. Subscribe to - | | rss feed: http://-/feed -? -