Your question: "The Doomsday Clock advances - what worries you the most? The Doomsday Clock is now only two and a half minutes away from the end of humanity. What global issue most worries you? To catch up on the update, read: https://yhoo.it/2juSe2i"
I am worried that elected and appointed officials and the majority of the electorate do not understand our dire situation and it is at least in part because of guys Lawrence M. Krauss, the man behind the article at issue:
"Krauss is the author of several bestselling books, including "The Physics of Star Trek" (1995)... Krauss describes himself as an antitheist and takes part in public debates on religion. Krauss is featured in the 2013 documentary The Unbelievers, in which he and Richard Dawkins travel across the globe speaking publicly about the importance of science and reason as opposed to religion and superstition. He has participated in many debates with religious apologists..."
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_M._Krauss
The article at issue is cited elsewhere on Yahoo!'s sites without regard to any realistic appraisal of nuclear threats in the world today and how it became that way over time.
Lawrence M. Krauss' opinion on nuclear proliferation varies with the political affiliation of the U.S. administration:
"One of the key charges Hillary Clinton made during the campaign was that the outspoken businessman could not be trusted with nuclear weapons. Trump has done little to alleviate those fears since his victory in November, tweeting that the U.S. should “greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability.”
• https://www.yahoo.com/news/doomsday-clock-and-donald-trump-170821576.html
If you learn anything from this post it should be the seriousness of nuclear proliferation. The article at issue and Mr. Krauss in particular are not published with that in mind.
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Please memorize this nuclear physics fact: Uranium is the stuff from which plutonium 239, the main ingredient of nuclear fission bombs, is made. Nuclear fission bombs are used to initiate the more powerful nuclear fusion bombs. Pu-239 is extracted from spent fuel by means of certain solvents and other chemical processes and high speed centrifuges.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_nuclear_weapons
That should mean something very significant to your survival after you read the article below:
"The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.... the company’s story was hardly front-page news in the United States — until early 2008, in the midst of Mrs. Clinton’s failed presidential campaign, when The Times published an article revealing the 2005 trip’s link to Mr. Giustra’s Kazakhstan mining deal. It also reported that several months later, Mr. Giustra had donated $31.3 million to Mr. Clinton’s foundation."
by JO BECKER and MIKE McINTIRE, 23 April 2015, The New York Times
• http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html
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The Russian Federation is the source of nuclear technology to a terrorist state, the Islamic Republic of Iran, far more than enough to produce nuclear weapons of various yields ad hoc. Iran has since 1979 been a sworn mortal enemy of the United States. It is a non-negotiable position on their part:
"Tehran (AFP) - The Iranian foreign minister’s reported handshake with US President Barack Obama triggered chants of "Death to America" in Tehran’s parliament... Despite the July 14 nuclear accord between Tehran and world powers led by the United States, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said Washington remains Tehran’s ‘number one enemy’."
Agence France-Presse (AFP), 30 September 2015
• http://news.yahoo.com/obama-handshake-triggers-anger-iran-parliament-130533543.html
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Mini nukes are derivatives of nuclear artillery shells developed in the 1950s.
One day some Islam inspired terrorists will almost certainly develop or acquire miniaturized nuclear devices which they will then use in lieu of C4 or other conventional military explosives.
If and when that happens, the event below will become by comparison a trivial footnote in history:
"The 7 July 2005 London bombings (often referred to as 7/7) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks [by Islamic terrorists] in central London, which targeted civilians using the public transport system during the morning rush hour… The explosions were caused by homemade organic peroxide-based devices packed into backpacks."
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings
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