Earlier
this month, the Doomsday Clock – popularized by the graphic novel
Watchmen – was moved a minute closer to midnight, leaving it set at five
minutes to midnight, or “Doomsday.”
This isn’t the closest it has been (that was back in 1953, when the
United States and Soviet Union tested thermonuclear devices and the
clock was set at 11:58 pm). But at a time of growing international
concern over Iran’s nuclear program – and the announcement by Iran that
it won’t “grin and bear” newly tightened sanctions and the EU decision
to ban the import of Iranian oil – the decision to move the clock is
interesting.
What is also interesting, though, is that Iran wasn’t one of the biggest
factors driving the latest change. Earlier today, I spoke with Kennette
Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
the magazine established by Manhattan Project scientists in 1945 that
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