Since 1947, what is known as warns the planet of the risks it accumulates and that can lead to self-destruction. Specialists from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago (USA), a group founded by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer and other scientists, have used the clock as a metaphor to represent how close humanity is to ending up killing its world. .
The symbolic clock – Doomsday Clock or the Last Judgment Clock – was created in an attempt to warn of the dangers of nuclear weapons, in full proliferation in the middle of a bitter bloc policy. However, other evils have been added to the atomic threat over the years, such as climate change, new viruses or poorly used science and technology, which are causing “irreparable damage to Humanity” and have forced the hands to move forward. .
Two years ago, according to the media time moved forward 10 seconds, from 100 seconds to 90 midnight, or in other words, “total and catastrophic” destruction, closer than ever, even at the height of the Cold War, to the end of the world.
Now, according to the same media, Donald Trump’s return to the White House could cause the hands of the clock to go back if he reaches a negotiation agreement in the Russian war in Ukraine, as he has been promising, although without specifying how he intends to achieve it. .
“At least [Trump] It talks about peace, not confrontation,” Pavel Podvig, an independent analyst at the Russian Nuclear Forces Project, said via social media. “It doesn’t talk about Russia’s strategic defeat. This is a good change,” he noted.
“A country is more likely to use nuclear weapons when it believes it can face an existential threat,” said Raffaele Marchetti, director of the CISS Center for International Strategic Studies at LUISS University in Rome. According to the same medium, “Russia, North Korea , Iran, they could all use them if they sense that their regimes may be coming to an end.”
“From that point of view, a new Trump administration should be perceived as less of a threat than a Democratic administration would have been,” he says.
