WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #176, MAY 8, 2024. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientist, Doomsday Clock Statement .
Israeli Nuclear
Weapons v. Nuclear Proliferation Treaty.
Dee Knight.
A Realistic Path to Peace.
“Nuclear
Dangers: Ukraine War, the Third Year.”
Zoom, 1p.m., ET, Grigory Yalinsky, previously announced.
“A
moment of historic danger:
It is still 90 seconds to midnight
2024 Annual Report and Doomsday Clock Statement.”
Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists
Rachel Bronson, President
& CEO; Editor, John Mecklin, January 23, 2024
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/
Ominous trends continue to point the
world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread
and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear
escalation. China, Russia, and the United States are all spending huge sums to
expand or modernize their nuclear arsenals, adding to the ever-present danger
of nuclear war through mistake or miscalculation.
In 2023, Earth experienced its hottest
year on record, and massive floods, wildfires, and other climate-related
disasters affected millions of people around the world. Meanwhile, rapid and
worrisome developments in the life sciences and other disruptive
technologies accelerated, while governments made only feeble efforts to
control them.
The members of the Science and Security Board have been deeply
worried about the deteriorating state of the world. That is why we set the
Doomsday Clock at two minutes to midnight in 2019 and at 100 seconds to
midnight in 2022. Last year, we expressed our heightened concern by moving the
Clock to 90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it has ever
been—in large part because of Russian threats to use nuclear weapons in the war
in Ukraine.
Today, we once again set the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to
midnight because humanity continues to face an unprecedented level of
danger. Our decision should not be taken as a sign that the international
security situation has eased. Instead, leaders and citizens around the world
should take this statement as a stark warning and respond urgently, as if today
were the most dangerous moment in modern history. Because it may well be.
But the world can be made safer. The Clock can move away from
midnight. As we wrote last year, “In this time of unprecedented global danger,
concerted action is required, and every second counts.” That is just as true
today. . . . MORE https://thebulletin.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-Doomsday-Clock-Statement.pdf
How to turn back the Clock
Everyone on Earth has an interest in reducing the likelihood of
global catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, advances in the life
sciences, disruptive technologies, and the widespread corruption of the world’s
information ecosystem.
These threats, singularly and as they interact, are of such a character and
magnitude that no one nation or leader can bring them under control. That is
the task of leaders and nations working together in the shared belief that
common threats demand common action. As the first step, and despite their
profound disagreements, three of the world’s leading powers—the United
States, China, and Russia—should commence serious dialogue about each of the
global threats outlined here. At the highest levels, these three countries
need to take responsibility for the existential danger the world now faces.
They have the capacity to pull the world back from the brink of catastrophe.
They should do so, with clarity and courage, and without delay.
It’s 90 seconds to midnight.
Israeli Nuclear Weapons v. Nuclear
Proliferation Treaty
Work to abolish ALL nuclear
weapons, but simultaneously try to reduce and block them, including illegal US support
for the Israeli nuclear arsenals.
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In
a letter sent April 18 to President Biden and
top members of his administration, Veterans For Peace cited
existing federal law that gives the President “…no discretion whatsoever to
allow any military assistance of any form to be delivered to Israel,” based on
that country’s “serial violations of the Symington-Glenn Amendments, codified
at 22 U.S.C. § 2799aa.” The letter cites a lengthy list of credible reports
that Israel has possessed nuclear weapons for decades. Because Israel has not
signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT), the Symington-Glenn
Amendments to the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act
of 1976, which allow no presidential discretion, goes into effect.
Dee Knight. A Realistic Path to Peace: From Genocide to
Global War and How We Can Stop It.
Author’s Description
"A
Realistic Path To Peace" delves into
the causes of Israel's genocide against Palestinians, describes the
crisis of war in eastern Europe (Ukraine
and Russia), West Asia and East
Asia, sorting truth from propaganda. It examines
the role of the Big Lie in developing public
consent and blunting popular opposition,
and describes ways countries around the world as
well as the general public are pressing for
peace.
It includes key arguments from experts on all
sides, and compelling, fully documented evidence to support its conclusions.
A core message is
that the world is in a crisis now. As
its empire declines toward collapse, the
U.S. leadership is making a series of disastrous
errors. The "neocons" in
Washington, DC, are determined to
maintain U.S. global domination regardless of what it
might take. The stakes
are high for them. They seem
to believe that if they "allow" any other country
to challenge their global leadership, their whole system could
fall apart. So they are prepared to do whatever
it takes. Supporting genocide in Israel-by providing weapons, money,
and a bizarre
"moral justification" for horrific genocidal
bombing-is a sign of what it takes.
Blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline was
another sign of what it can take.
Western European leaders have been rounded up
and bludgeoned into a unified NATO alliance against Russia, and in support of Israeligenocide against
Palestinians. This alliance-originally composed of "north
Atlantic" countries under U.S. leadership at the end of World
War II-is now also being extended to Asia.
It's a quest to curb China's historic economic success, which threatens Western domination
of global trade.
Whether efforts to achieve peace can
overwhelm the power of the U.S. and NATO war
machine is an open question. The alternative is
too horrific to imagine. That in itself can
be a driving
force to build the peace movement we need. And we
can be confident that the neocons have
made a bad gamble. They are unlikely to win. Their
loss could bring about a world free of
imperialist war. It's early to know if that can
happen, but it's a possibility worth striving for.
“This book of excellent essays
analyses the current U.S. drive to war, against Russia and beyond. Knight
exposes its roots and points to the only path to peace: opposition to the U.S.
war machine.” Radhika Desai, Director,
Geopolitical Economy Research Group; Convenor, International Manifesto Group.
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