Haven’t Enough to Keep You Awake at Night? Try the Doomsday Clock for a Truthful State of the Union
NOVANEWS
By Skip Kaltenheuser
DownWithTyranny
Tick Tock. The good folks at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientistshave returned to wind their Doomsday Clock. Last Thursday at the National Press Club a group of well-credentialed speakers, including former California Governor Jerry Brown and former Secretary of Defense William Perry, underscored the organization’s warning that we have established residence in “the new abnormal.” Watch the press conference and supportive videos here.
The Doomsday Clock was set last year at a two-minutes until midnight, (midnight being the endgame), and there it now remains. There’s little comfort to be had in standing on what University of Chicago astrophysicist Robert Rosnercharacterized as a precipice we’d best quickly leap back from. Bulletin preside...