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Nuclear Experts Form International 'Nuclear Crisis Group' (teenvogue.com)
Slashdot reader Dan Drollette shares an article by the executive director and publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:On Friday, an elite group of the world's nuclear experts and advisers launched a Nuclear Crisis Group, to help manage the growing risk of nuclear conflict. The group includes leading diplomats with decades of experience, and retired military officers who were once responsible for launching nuclear weapons if given the order to do so. China, India, Pakistan, Russia, and the United States, all countries that have nuclear weapons, are represented. The group intends to create a "shadow security council," or an expert group capable of providing advice to world leaders on nuclear matters...
Building on grass-roots support, the Nuclear Crisis Group could serve as a brake on nuclear escalation and be an early step in reversing the downward nuclear security spiral. Not only will they be able to offer expertise to inexperienced leaders who are dabbling in nuclear security, but they will be able to develop and endorse proposals that could make the world safer such as expanding the decision time that leaders have to respond to a nuclear threat, further protecting nuclear systems against cyber attacks and unintended escalations, reenergizing the appetite for arms control negotiations, and questioning global nuclear upgrade programs.
Building on grass-roots support, the Nuclear Crisis Group could serve as a brake on nuclear escalation and be an early step in reversing the downward nuclear security spiral. Not only will they be able to offer expertise to inexperienced leaders who are dabbling in nuclear security, but they will be able to develop and endorse proposals that could make the world safer such as expanding the decision time that leaders have to respond to a nuclear threat, further protecting nuclear systems against cyber attacks and unintended escalations, reenergizing the appetite for arms control negotiations, and questioning global nuclear upgrade programs.
These are the same people that have been presenting the doomsday clock. The same doomsday clock that for decades has been around 5 minutes from midnight & DOOM!!! They present themselves as non-partisan and neutral when in reality they are vehemently anti-nuclear.
Sounds like the old name has become so tarnished that a new name is is needed for propaganda purposes. Clearly their hyperbole and public messaging positions are effectively the same. Anybody want to bother seeing how close related the boards are between the two?
Slashdot is tentatively a science based site and should know better than to post an article for shills like this. Can the editors please do a bit better in the future?
"all countries that have nuclear weapons, are represented"
What about Israel and N. Korea?
Change the button that launches ICBMs into a button that kills the person that presses the button.
You cannot convince a fool using logic.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Wars are only fought when BOTH sides think they can win.
That is not always true. Sometimes nations blunder into wars that are clearly not in their best interest. When I was in high school, my history teacher made us read The Guns of August, a book about how Europe blundered into the First World War through a serious of diplomatic misunderstandings and misjudgements about the intentions of both their adversaries and allies.
Before I read that book I had the naive belief that, although politicians may make self-serving statements in public, in private they were actually smart competent people that knew what they were doing and worked for the best interest of their people. After reading now they sent millions of their citizens off to die in a pointless war over a dead archduke, I realized that wasn't true.
I thought about that book in 2003, as America was blundering into the Iraq War.
Will they have doomsday clock like the other bunch?
They are the same bunch.
So this is a private group of experts that will help prevent Nuclear war. So how exactly do they do that?
The group formed in 1947, seven decades ago. Since then there have been ZERO nuclear wars. So they have been doing a damned good job so far.
There's no such thing as an animated jpg, right? And yet if I stare at it long enough, it starts to move.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."