Honestly? Not very.
I grew up in the 1980’s doing duck-and-cover drills in school until the Berlin Wall came down. Growing up a science nerd who practically lived at the library, it was pretty obvious that duck-and-cover would do jack-and-shit if anybody ever pressed the big red button. So, I had to come to terms with the possibility that somebody might nuke where I grew up, probably far too early than was good for my mental health.
What it comes down to is this: In the unlikely event that somebody pops off a nuclear weapon, there is precisely dick that you, I, or anybody else likely to read this thread could do about it. It’s way above any of our pay grades, to steal a phrase. The only thing you can really do is take heart in the fact that there is nothing you did to cause it and nothing you can do to stop it, just like a solar flare or a gamma ray burst. The best you can hope for is that you’re somewhere in the first two blast radii because the most likely outcome is a bright flash, and that’ll be that. No suffering, no radiation sickness, no cancer eating you alive months to years later.
I get that’s not the kind of response you’re looking for, and I can’t blame you for that. However, neither am I willing to lie. Nuclear war is possibly one of the most horrible things the human race is capable of, and there is no happy medium, nothing reassuring, nothing hopeful that can be said.
Hug your loved ones.
Trump’s cabinet probably:
More like this:
Mein Führer, I can walk!
All that movie highlights is that nothing has really changed in 60 years.
It’s definitely way funnier than reality that’s for sure
And that’s the doves. The hawks are more like…
Now playing The Doves - Rise
i feel this whole clock thing is such a liberal jerk off grounded in idealism not materialism. theyve been edging on 89 seconds to midnight since 2024.
i remember them moving the clock forward when north korea did some missile test a long time ago, as if north korea are the global aggressors 🙄. and of course it was 7 minutes to midnight during the cuban missile crisis.
trump threatening war on like 5 different countries is worrying, but i feel its mostly just MIC stock manipulation.
My suspicion is that the clock accelerated significantly because of climate change. Even if we don’t nuke each other, climate change is a slow burn, self-inflicted destruction by humans. Either way, both scenarios lead to a hot extinction.
If we’re talking the bomb? Not very.
Climate change is a bigger fish to fry.
They mention climate change in their statement
Climate change won’t end the world, though that isn’t to say it won’t make things hell on earth. Nuclear war however could very well end all life on earth.
Life would still exist. I don’t think there is anything humanity could do that would completely end life. There is life living tens of kilometers underground in the lithosphere and life in such remote caves that have been separated from all other environments for millions of years.
Im currently on the ostrich defence.
I stopped watching the news, I blocked as much news as I can on here and reddit.
Piece of piss.
A friend of mine just got her first real break from her 3-yo-kid in a while… she caught up on the news… by the next day she was in the ER having a full panic attack she couldn’t stop.
She’s a therapist.
I’m not very concerned about global war.
China doesn’t want war, Europe doesn’t want it. Sure the US might attack someone, but that’s not global war.
In this hypothetical situation you’re proposing, who is it the US is attacking?
South America? He already is fucking worth Venezuela, probably would attack Cuba, Columbia, and Panama as well.
He’d invade a whole bunch of Central America too if he knew any of the other countries’ names.
Those places aren’t in the world?
I am very worried about the US starting WW3. It’s March of 1939, and nazis are actively fabricating a casus belli against weaker foreign political enemies.
If I see a mushroom cloud I’m running towards it. No need to go to work, no need to pay back mortgage.
Just wait, the shockwave will get to you soon enough.
The people who have the power to burn it all down are unstable. I am concerned, but helpless.
Global war between who?
Russia has been shown to be a paper tiger. China wants to dominate through trade not warfare. Everybody else doesn’t really have an axe to grind. At least, not on that scale.
US also proved itself a paper tiger,
it’ll be a way between senile geriatrics trying to feel relevant
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I’m not sure Hong Kong is a good example. It was returned to China from the UK in the 90s. So everything since then is “internal”.
Tibet on the other hand…
My worry isn’t that we will have a rational war. War isn’t rational to begin with.
My worry is that we will have an irrational war. All it takes is a button push to end the world.
largest military and nuclear stockpile country going full facist. Its one second to midnight from my view.
I agree with the sentiment, but in going to “uhm acksually” you on the size of the nuclear stockpile. Russia still holds more nukes officially: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons
Yeah I just assumed but then again I sorta assume russias numbers are a bit bs. Of course our numbers are becoming bs and if we don’t right the ship hopefully the corruption will drain our power away like what happened with russia.
Reminder that they basically changed the scale in the 90’s, when history was supposed to be over. It’s higher now than during the damn Cuban missile crisis, not because we’re somehow closer, but because of a kind of ratchet effect as a very baseline Cold War level of tension returns.
I don’t understand what you mean. Can you suggest what to research to learn more?
A bit more concerned now that the US is resuming nuclear tests.
To be honest, the idea of nuclear weapons ever being used again is far scarier to me than WW3 in general.
Extremely concerned. The rise of facism always means mass death
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The Doomsday Clock was last updated January 2025, I remember having watched it live when the update was announced. But it’s pretty much out of date at this point, especially due to news from the most recent few weeks.
While we’re “just” two months from the next update (yeah, time flies), perhaps the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists should consider updating it every three months or, even, every month…
…even though the Doomsday Clock have been had a similar role and power that of UN: none at all, they can’t even stop nuclear countries from pushing the juicy fan-with-three-blades passion-colored button, shall any of these countries decide doing it for the sake of it.
Which reminds me of a joke: “What’s the difference between a rock and the UN? A rock can be thrown during a tantrum, at least”. Similarly, “What do the Doomsday Clock and a sundial have in common? Both can’t tell you the time during the night time”.
