Apocalypse standard time

Remember the Doomsday Clock? It was a fact of baby-boomer life, always stuck a few minutes before midnight, at which time the world would end in nuclear holocaust.
It’s ticking again, but this time the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, who founded the clock in 1945, have added global warming to its assessment of apocalyptic peril. The group also warns that the atomic standoffs with Iran and North Korea amount to “a second nuclear age.”
So the minute hand has been moved forward two minutes, to 11:55 p.m. The closest it ever came to the witching hour was in 1953, when it stood at 11:58.
Posted by Dave Knadler

8 Comments

  1. writerdog
    Posted January 18, 2007 at 2:49 am | Permalink

    Maybe both problems can handle themselves. A nuclear war would bring on a nuclear winter that would freeze the planet. Global warming and nuclear proliferation solve.. Now what about those pesky humans?

  2. Mary Caruso
    Posted January 18, 2007 at 7:33 am | Permalink

    It’s probably about time for Mother Earth to clean house anyway.

  3. Todd
    Posted January 18, 2007 at 9:05 am | Permalink

    Well done, “scientists”. You’ve got your names in the paper again.

  4. ProudMan
    Posted January 18, 2007 at 11:52 am | Permalink

    Doomsday Clock?

    It cannot be! Only right-wingers use fear to motivate the public. . .

  5. Platypus
    Posted January 18, 2007 at 3:23 pm | Permalink

    Thanks to ‘el loco’ in the White House, we are closer to obliteration of the planet.

    It is ironical, that the clock’s time was further back, when el loco’s father was in office.

  6. Wiseman
    Posted January 18, 2007 at 9:27 pm | Permalink

    Yeah, I remember that clock from the 70’s but when global warming really gets going, we will forget about it again.

  7. J R
    Posted January 18, 2007 at 9:40 pm | Permalink

    WIth idiot “God chose me to be President” bush on the loose?

    It SHOULD be 11:59:20

    (It would take bush 39 seconds to figure out how to push a button)

  8. Wiseman
    Posted January 18, 2007 at 10:47 pm | Permalink

    By the way, Dave Knadler when that clock was at it’s closest to the witching hour.Your topic said 1953, is that suppose be in the year 1963 during the Cuban missile crisis?