
We are, thankfully, one minute further away from nuclear annihilation. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists were optimistic in New York when they announced that they were moving the clock one minute away from midnight, a symbol of our global efforts to, “bend the arc of history toward a world free of nuclear weapons.”
But in the wake of all the headlines, photographs and news stories capturing the hell on Earth that is happening in Haiti, the Doomsday clock and it’s measure of human caused cataclysm seems very abstract.