Apocalyptic clock

From 1947 to the present, the minute hand on the clock hidden the American Apocalypse 12-hour Apocalypse was over 18 adjustments. Most recently, on January 18, 2007, it was inched by 2 more lines and only 5 lines left until the fateful time.

Birth and death are heavenly and earth cannot be an exception. Then it will die, only after billions of years, when the sun gets older. At that time, people would probably make other suns. So the " doomsday " is still a myth, unless people are too wise to become mad and destroy themselves. Unfortunately, this risk is real.

In 1947, the intellectual peaks in the United States, many of whom had conceived the first two nuclear bombs such as Einstein, Oppenheimer, Bethe, Szilard . created a metaphorical clock foreshadowing That end of the world.The minute hand is closer to the 12-hour mark, the greater the danger . From the first 7 bars in 1947, it was sometimes adjusted, when it was time to retreat. The last time there was only 2-3 bars left in 1945-1953 when the Soviet Union tested the first atomic and gas bomb, starting a nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States. Thousands of nuclear warheads are on the launch pad ready to wait for the command to press the button. Tens of thousands of other fruits are filled with warehouses. Nearly 500 fruits of all sizes are allowed to be tested, spreading the radioactivity globally. Tired and tired, both must be delayed. The 1953 agreement to suspend the test of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere pulled the minute hand away to 12 bars.

Apocalyptic clock watch model. (Photo: Reuters)

But it wasn't until 30 years later that scientists were relieved when the cold war ended in 1991. The minute hand was pulled farthest, up to 17 marks. But contrary to expectations, the world continued to be unstable, the minute hand inched up, and after 4 adjustments, to January 18, 2007 it was only 5 lines away from the fate of 12. .

The alarm clock Doomsday is the manipulation of people who like to joke? Is not! There must be a new super-clever joking like that. In the 70s of the last century, when the confrontation between the two superpowers reached its peak, the earth used to store 40,000 nuclear warheads with a total power of over 13 billion tons of TNT, a million times more powerful. bomb fell on Hiroshima (15,000 tons of TNT). Indeed at the moment there are many people in the world who like to joke. These are strategists drawing scenarios using this arsenal. Their products are filled with top secret filing cabinets on both sides. They ignored the consequences of those scenarios for the fate of humanity.

Few think of what will happen when only five of the 13 billion tons of TNT are pressed by the two sides to reach 1000 cities in the 30-60 latitude range in the northern hemisphere. Not to mention the ruins, death and terrible radioactive dust, the people and organisms that have the chance to survive the disaster will die in the " Nuclear Winter " because 200 million tons of black smoke covering the sky makes heat atmospheric levels decrease from 10 to 20 degrees Celsius and 50% of the ozone layer is punctured. Flowing through the West - East, radioactive substances and black smoke released to the stratosphere will extend the nuclear winter for many years.

The graph shows the minute movement of the minute against the Apocalypse, depending on the risk
use nuclear weapons in the world. (Photo: ex-parrot.com)

Of course, the two Russian and American presidents did not want to see the Apocalypse by pressing the launchers button. But the danger of a nuclear war escalating at a regional scale seems small. Just 50 Hiroshima-type bombs exploded in a Gulf war will kill 3 to 5 million people and leave winter on a large area in the two continents of Eurasia. Recall, during the 1991 Gulf War, 526 Kuwaiti oil wells were burned for days and then blasted into the sky a black smoke that caused a day temperature of 200 km to fall by 10 degrees Celsius. Who uses nuclear weapons.