American scientific journals are prepared for threats such as nuclear war because the international community is not able to respond to the new coronavirus regarding the time of the "Doomsday Clock" that symbolically shows the time remaining until the last day of humankind. As an indication that there is no such thing, it announced the shortest "1 minute and 40 seconds left" so far, along with last year.

The American scientific journal "Brettin of the Atomic Scientists" held an online press conference on the 27th, and set the time of the "Doomsday Clock", which symbolically shows the time remaining until the last day of humankind, with "1 minute remaining". 40 seconds "was announced.



"The international community has not responded appropriately to the new coronavirus, which has made us realize how unprepared it is for nuclear weapons and climate change," said the magazine's director on a global challenge. He pointed out that this is because the international community has not been able to deal with it in a coordinated manner.



The "Doomsday Clock" started with "7 minutes remaining" in 1947 at the beginning of the Cold War, and then the hands repeatedly advanced and returned between the US-Soviet conflict and nuclear disarmament, and after the end of the Cold War, it was returned to "17 minutes remaining". I did.



Since the beginning of this century, the progress of global warming has been taken into consideration, and last year it was advanced to the shortest "1 minute 40 seconds remaining" so far.



Meanwhile, scientists who attended the meeting announced that the Biden administration in the United States would return to the international framework for global warming countermeasures, the Paris Agreement, and extended the nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia, the New START, for five years. Some also welcomed the agreement in principle to do so.



Governor Yuzaki of Hiroshima Prefecture also sent a video message to the press conference, saying, "Nuclear deterrence is a human-made fiction, and if everyone stops believing, it loses its influence. We involve as many people as possible. We need to create a strong momentum for the abolition of nuclear weapons, "he said, calling for support and action for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

United Nations "should be taken seriously"

A UN spokesman said at a press conference on the 27th that the "Doomsday Clock" should be taken seriously. "The" Doomsday Clock "has urged each country to promote nuclear disarmament through international cooperation. One example is the entry into force of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty, which has become a powerful message from the international community, and the other is that the United States and Russia will extend the'new START'of the Nuclear Disarmament Treaty for five years. " He emphasized the need to step up efforts.