They move the clock of the Apocalypse, the Doomsday Clock (the Countdown to the End of the World)

1 February 2010

Countdown per la Fine del Mondo. Dopo due anni di standby oggi sono state spostate le lancette del Doomsday Clock, l’orologio che da 63 anni si “muove” solo in occasione di un eventuale rischio catastrofe. Una metafora dell’ Apocalisse voluta da un gruppo di scienziati atomici nel 1947. All’indomani delle bombe su Hiroshima e Nagasaki. Oggi le lancette si sono spostate di un minuto. Indietro.

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 at risk of a possible catastrophe. A metaphor of 'Revelation commissioned by a group of atomic scientists in 1947. In the aftermath of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today, the hands are moved in a minute. Back. www.altrogiornale.org photos

Not many people know, but 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 of 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 transformed the Doomsday Clock in the most disturbing symbol of ' 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 the hands a few minutes to mark midnight. A few minutes at the end. When he thought of the clock ' Revelation was the hour set at seven minutes exact X. The midnight precisely. In 1953 came the catastrophe the hands of no less than five minutes. The Russians are testing nuclear weapons without stopping and without restraint. Scientists of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists realized that the situation was serious. Then those hands back in place and the world breathed a sigh of relief. Since then, however, the hands of the Doomsday Clock have moved at least another 17 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 per hour X This is marked as the clock of ' Revelation until yesterday. Then someone announced that the time had come for answers virtual countdown. Until this morning, little information about it. It was not known what would have been moved to the hands. Even if they had been moved forward or backward. He knew only that a scientific spokesman for the college stated that the factors which have influenced the hands were tied to international negotiations on nuclear disarmament, the expansion of Energy civilian nuclear power, the threat of terrorism and climatic emergency. From a few hours all these risks were evaluated by a committee of fewer than 18 Nobel laureates and the hands of the Doomsday Clock has been moved to the twentieth time. But at last a minute behind. The event was announced only on your site http://www.turnbacktheclock.org./ . Nuclear weapons have been reduced by 4000 units in three years. "There are about 23,000 - has told the Washington Post Kennett 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.