{"id":16,"date":"2007-01-14T11:49:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T18:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:54:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:54:48","slug":"scientists-to-move-doomsday-clock-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/scientists-to-move-doomsday-clock-forward","title":{"rendered":"Scientists to Move Doomsday Clock Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"articleContent\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/archives\/ic\/2007\/1\/12\/212655.shtml?s=ic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/NewsMax.com\">NewsMax.com<\/a><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"articleContent\">The keepers of the \u201cDoomsday Clock\u201d plan to move its hands forward next Wednesday to reflect what they call worsening nuclear and climate threats to the world.<\/p>\n<p>The symbolic clock, maintained by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, currently is set at seven minutes to midnight, with midnight marking global catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>The group did not say in which direction the hands would move. But in a news release previewing an event next Wednesday, they said the change was based on \u201cworsening nuclear, climate threats\u201d to the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe major new step reflects growing concerns about a \u2018Second Nuclear Age\u2019 marked by grave threats, including: nuclear ambitions in Iran and North Korea, unsecured nuclear materials in Russia and elsewhere, the continuing \u2018launch-ready\u2019 status of 2,000 of the 25,000 nuclear weapons held by the U.S. and Russia, escalating terrorism, and new pressure from climate change for expanded civilian nuclear power that could increase proliferation risks,\u201d the release reads.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"articleContent\">Looks like the Lifeboat Foundation isn\u2019t the only organization that notices the threat increasing, but it is one of the few that sees beyond the nuclear and climatic threat to future threats of much greater magnitude.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NewsMax.com: The keepers of the \u201cDoomsday Clock\u201d plan to move its hands forward next Wednesday to reflect what they call worsening nuclear and climate threats to the world. The symbolic clock, maintained by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, currently is set at seven minutes to midnight, with midnight marking global catastrophe. The group did [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52323,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/52323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}