THE Kremlin issued a chilling threat of nuclear war today after scientists said humanity is closer than ever to Armageddon. Vladimir Putin’s spokesman warned of “appropriate measures…
And regime propagandists demanded RussiaYesterday a panel of scientists and global diplomats behind the Doomsday Clock cited repeated warnings by Putin and his cronies that he is"Russia's thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict - by accident, intention or miscalculation - is a terrible risk," said Rachel Bronson, head of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
The Doomsday Clock launched in 1947 at seven minutes to midnight - but the outlook has got worse over time In 1963 the clock moved back five minutes after the US and Soviet Union signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty to limit testingIn the early 1970s five minutes was given back after three treaties were signed on nuclear weaponsIn 1981, it jumped six minutes forward at the height of nuclear arms race between the US and Soviet union
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