The Global Challenges Foundation, a Swedish group that assesses catastrophic risks, warned in its annual report that the threat of using nuclear weapons is the greatest since 1945 when the US destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The planet seems to be closer than ever to a nuclear war, as experts who operate the so-called “doomsday clock” warn. Entering 2022, few would have expected US President Joe Biden to be talking about nuclear annihilation following Russia’s threats to use nukes in Ukraine.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the planet is “on an avenue to climate hell with our foot on the gas”.
Climate change last year caused severe flooding in Pakistan, China sweated under an unprecedented 70-day heatwave and crops failed to bear fruit in the Horn of Africa.
The Global Challenges Foundation, a Swedish group that assesses catastrophic risks, warned in an annual report that the threat of using nuclear weapons is the greatest since 1945 when the United States destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The report warned that a full-scale nuclear weapons exchange, in addition to causing massive loss of life, would cause clouds of dust that would shade the sun, reduce the ability to produce food and usher in “a period of chaos and violence in which most of the surviving world population would starve to death.”
While a Russian nuclear strike would likely involve small “tactical” nukes, experts fear a rapid escalation if the United States responds.
“Then we’re in a completely different game,” said Benedict, senior adviser to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which in January will reveal its latest assessment of the “doomsday clock” set from 2021 at 100 seconds to at midnight.
Meanwhile, amid the war in Ukraine, U.S. intelligence agencies believe North Korea is ready for a seventh nuclear test, Biden has effectively declared dead a deal on Iran’s disputed nuclear project, and tensions between India and Pakistan have remained at low point.
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