Hiroshima Day
Today is Hiroshima Day, the 63rd anniversary of the first atomic bomb attack in history.
The Doomsday Clock sits at 5 minutes to twelve. Advancing two minutes in January of 2007 a reflection of global failures to solve the problems posed by nuclear weapons and the climate crisis, the decision by the Bulletin’s Board of Directors was made in consultation with the Bulletin’s Board of Sponsors, which includes 18 Nobel Laureates. (source)
America maintains 10,000 nuclear bombs.
We could save 14 billion dollars a year, better spent on..you name it… if that number was reduced.
How many of those things, fifty times more powerful now than Hiroshima or Nagasaki, do you think we need?
If you think we are going to be around once five or sick of those things go off, I want what your drinking.
A clock set by committee has to be the punchline to a joke I haven’t heard yet.
Scientist are to blame , the least thy can do is keep the timeline of our dissolution.
I like their bulletin. The clock is a reminder, like we need any. I grew up expecting the age of apocalypse.
That’s a whole lot of bombs.
More than enough to take out several planets too.
Just imagine all the fun once the Iranians start adding to the mix. …
Just watching those bombs explode makes me ill.
I want to be at ground zero though,immediate vaporization or nothing.
Now did you read the news today
They say the dangers gone away
But I can see the fires still alight
There burning into the night…
This is the time…this is the place…So we look for the future
But theres not much love to go around…Tell me why, this is the land of confusion. (Genesis)
Always loved that video…
scary times.
But it is all some kind of crazy game chicken were the only losers are humanity. Leaders try to tell us that it is about deterrence but if we have more respect for humanity as a whole these weapons would not even exist today. We have learned nothing since Hiroshima as we continue to event more and more terrible ways to destroy ourselves.
Earth people are pretty dense it seems.
I guess we should always keep one - like some sort of megaton-cyanide capsule - in case some nation ever decides to end a war again and all hell breaks loose.
I am not against keeping some. Obviously we are not going to get rid of them anytime soon, a pipe dream that would be, but at that cost I’d say we keep thirty of the best. That should take care of the earth the moon and mars.