WE live in an age of many firsts. We are the first humans to have a ‘Doomsday Clock’ as well as an International Day of Nonviolence. What do we make of this contrast? Does the Doomsday Clock seem more real than The Knotted Gun outside the United Nations?
The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic way of keeping track of how close we are to a human-made global catastrophe. The clock came into being in 1947 as scientists were grappling with the implications of having invented nuclear weapons. Maintained since then by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the. . .
