Werkzeuge des Geistes: The doomsday Clock

The doomsday Clock

Since 1947 the magazine " Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" has given reports on the state of the world in regards to the global level of nuclear danger. To symbolize the threat, a clock is used, which indicates how urgent the threat is. Midnight is seen as the ultimative acopalyptic time.
The current time to midnight is available under:
http://www.thebulletin.org/doomsday_clock/current_time.htm
You may be also interested in an older article by the anthropologist Hugh Gusterson and his article for the 50th Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima in 1995.
http://web.mit.edu/anthropology/faculty_staff/gusterson/op-eds/On_the_Anniversary_of_Hiroshima_Lmore_Indept.html

age_man_eight - am Do, 04. August 2005, 12:55 - Rubrik: Opinions

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age_man_eight meinte am 4. Aug, 16:57:

The main arguments

Gusterson argued that there appear basically four narratives in the Hiroshima discourse:
- the mathematical narrative: The dropping of the bomb is justified by calculating the number of deaths that would have occured by an intervention.
- the vengeful narrative: Japan started the war, America ended it.
- the empathic narrative: Bomb was dropped on civilians, especially women and children.
- the conspiracy narrative: The bomb was dropped to impress the Soviets, not to end the war.

age_man_eight meinte am 4. Aug, 21:27:

More about the bomb

Just found this at th Washington Post:
On Aug. 6, the world will mark the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Out of the countless books written since then to try to make sense of the forces unleashed by the mushroom cloud, here are one nuclear expert's choices of the best -- the essential atomic bookshelf.
Link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/28/AR2005072801558_pf.html