The Doomsday Clock Moves Closer to Midnight

I suppose this announcement is a good thing in terms of generating necessary discussion and coming up with preventative measures, but I fear it will also bring about certain undesirable side effects, including a loud and extremely annoying rattling of the cages of the moonbat contingent, followed by finger pointing at Bush, the US and Israel.

From Fox News:

The end of the world may be drawing a bit closer.

Scientists on Wednesday will change the time on Chicago’s Doomsday Clock based on what they say is the “most perilous period since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”

They based their decision on countries increasingly seeking nuclear technology, the United States’ and Russia’s ability to readily launch 2,000 of their 25,000 nuclear weapons, as well as threats posed by global warming, bioterrorism and an overall increase in worldwide terrorism, the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said in a press release.

The group specifically singled out Iran and North Korea as examples of the threat posed by countries striving for nuclear technology.

The Bulletin scientists created the clock in 1947 to assess the threat of a nuclear holocaust during the Cold War. The time on the clock, housed at the University of Chicago, will be changed after a dual ceremony in London and Washington.

The clock's minute hand will be moved 2 minutes closer to midnight, which symbolizes the apocalypse, according to the Bulletin's Web site. The clock currently stands at 5 minutes to midnight.

The decision to move the clock forward reflects "growing concerns" about a “Second Nuclear Age," the press release said.