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By Mark Gruenberg
HIROSHIMA, Japan—Tick…tick…tick.
That’s the ominous sound of the Doomsday Clock today, the 75th anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. The gruesome timer is kept by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Their clock is now at 100 seconds before midnight, the closest it’s been to worldwide atomic destruction since the height of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War in 1953, the Chicago-based bulletin says.
If it hits midnight, the world is at a nuclear Armageddon, the scientists forthrightly declare.
There are several reasons why the world is ever closer to that doom, say both the governor of Hiroshima prefecture (state) in Japan, Hidehiko Yuzaki, and Bulletin editor John Mecklin. Hiroshima is in the forefront, understandably, of the worldwide campaign to abolish the globe’s nuclear weapons....
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