Nuclear war. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the symbolic Doomsday Clock to two minutes to midnight on January 25. But that was just a dream, and “the world has to wake up from even the happiest dreams,” wrote Morris. We are entering a new world of risk-taking and adventurism.” This is Morris’s “new nuclear age”—where the forces that have held back nuclear World War iii are gone. Conflict on a scale and intensity not seen since the Second World War is once again plausible.

Source: Ethiopian News January 31, 2018 06:00 UTC