Did anybody read the statement[0]? After the first section about Putin/Ukraine, they go on to mention Iran (no longer beholden to the non-proliferation deal), N

Did anybody read the statement[0]? After the first section about Putin/Ukraine, they go on to mention Iran (no longer beholden to the non-proliferation deal), North Korea (continually improving their capabilities), a large Chinese expansion of missile silos, massive generational US overhaul of our arsenal, US/Russia/China all developing anti-satellite weaponry (Russia launched one that stalked a US government satelitte[1]) and hypersonic (cruise?) missiles, and the fact that Mike Pence had a 'nuclear football' somewhere near him in the (at the time being overrun by a crazed mob) Capitol on Jan 6. Notably the biggest rollback of the clock during the Cold War was in Jan 1963, shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis, during which Kennedy and Kruschev demonstrated that cooler heads could prevail during a nuclear standoff between the only nuclear powers with world-destroying arsenals at the time. No doubt this stayed in their minds for the next couple decades. For the past couple of decades the clock has also considered: climate change (on which insufficient progress has been made or even really attempted); biohazard (a global inability to cooperatively contain or mitigate, along with the non-trivial possibility that Covid was actively bred in a biolab in an emerging country clearly incapable of handling biohazards safely, and rapid advancement in research techniques eg CRISPR, all whilst the Biological Weapons and Toxin Convention has yet to develop an effective enforcement regime); antibiotics resistance; the social media mass-brainf*ck with attendant negligence or impotence from the companies themselves; and cybersecurity (they mention the Colonial pipeline ransomware incident as a threat to infrastructure itself). They didn't even mention the overly-brittle global supply chain. Sure, we can survive on last year's iPhone for a little longer but what about when we can't get replacement PLC or I/O cards to run our power plants or food processing facilities? If this sounds like a breathless run-on sentence, that's because it is. The doomsday clock assesses existential threats to the human race, and there's a lot more of them - in a lot more player's hands - now than during the Cold War. [0] https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/ https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/ [1] https://www.space.com/russian-spacecraft-stalking-us-spy-satellite-space-force.html https://www.space.com/russian-spacecraft-stalking-us-spy-sat...