The Doomsday Clock Moves 90 Seconds to Midnight
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The group says that the next step is setting up a round table conversation among the world’s nuclear powers in which they will discuss how they can disarm.
Following the end of the Cuban missile crisis and the close shaves back in the early 1980s amid the US Cold War with the Soviet Union, there was significant action to stop proliferation and reductions in nuclear arsenals. Now, the ICAN is urging world leaders to finish the job.
ICAN’s Executive Director, Beatrice Fihn says it’s high time to act: “We have had enough of the Doomsday Clock warnings being followed by inaction. The leaders of the nuclear-armed states must urgently negotiate nuclear disarmament, and the G7 meeting in Hiroshima in May 2023 is the perfect place to outline such a plan.
"The leaders of the G7 countries must now step up and seize the moment of their meeting in the first city to have been devastated by an atomic bomb at the huge human cost to tell us how they will work with Russia, China, and other nuclear-armed states to end this grave threat to humanity.” Beatrice Fihn explained.