emptywheel

Last year, due to Trump's interest in nukes and anti-climate science stance, we moved closer to midnight than any time since the Cold War. What will it be now that he's threatened repeatedly to use nukes, abandoned Puerto Rico post-hurricane, and censored scientists?https://twitter.com/BulletinAtomic/status/956240596594642944 …

Watching the @BulletinAtomic clock update conference, which in an unprecedented move last year, moved their doomsday clock to two and a half minutes to midnight...

"We've come to a grim assessment. As of today, it is two minutes to midnight." This is the closest to doomsday the @BulletinAtomic has ever set its clock in its 71-year history.

The reasons the clock was set to two minutes to midnight are: * Increased likelihood of nuclear weapons use under Trump * Devastating impact of climate change and govt refusal to enact environmental protections to manage current crisis and stave off worse effects

Bulletin of Atomic Scentists speaker: "Today the risk of nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was in the Cold War, and most people are blissfully unaware."

They are now briefly addressing cyberweapons and the potential use of them by terrorists and hostile states. I predict that cyber weapons will be incorporated into future threat assessments, much as climate change now is. It's the most undercovered threat we face.

As someone who covers them, cyber weapons aren't undercovered, at all. They're just harder to deter.

You do a great job covering the issue, as do other reporters. My compaint is not with the quality of the coverage that exists, but that it often doesn't spread to a mass audience and people don't always know the extent of the problem.