Today more than 13,000 nuclear warheads exist globally, ready and available to be flown to your destination City, Nation, or Metropolis, as a target for nuclear explosion Ground Zero.

These weapons of mass destruction target the face of all major cities and centers of population throughout the World.

Almost all of these atomic weapons are multi-headed ICBMs, with 90% of them Russian and American, and with several other countries self-declared nuclear powers carrying the remaining 10%.

Amongst these other countries we have the UK, France, China, India, Pakistan Iran, Ukraine, South Africa, and North Korea.

Israel is certainly known to have these weapons, but has never confirmed it. Most other countries that have modern nuclear weapons such as Iran — always play the cat & mouse game, of threatening to deploy them, and bomb Israel, Europe or America, while also denying their existence in their soil…

Of course, these nuclear weapons are many times more powerful than those that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and are far more technologically advanced than even the hydrogen and the proton bombs of yore.

The Doomsday Clock – which shows how symbolically close the world is to nuclear Armageddon – remains at 90 seconds to midnight.

Scientists have listed reasons for keeping its hands the closest they have ever been to “Doomsday” — but stopped short of nudging it further forward.

The threat of a new nuclear arms race, the Ukraine war and climate change concerns were all factors, they said.

The clock is set annually by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Since 1947, scientists have considered the impact of man-made Armageddon risk of our Species’ extinction to be Atomic bombs and Nuclear War, as the greatest threat.

In its 2024 announcement, the Atomic Bulletin Scientists said, that America, China, Russia, led by the US who spends upwards of $2 Trillion for the Nuclear Renaissance program of New Nuclear Weapons and Modernization of its Atomic weapons fleets.

Indeed they are all spending huge sums to “expand or modernize their nuclear arsenals – which adds to the “ever-present danger of nuclear war through mistake or miscalculation”. 

The war in Ukraine had also created an “ever-present risk of nuclear escalation”, they said.

The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 by Albert Einstein, J Robert Oppenheimer, and several fellow US scientists who had developed the atomic bomb through the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos.

They had seen its devastating effects two years earlier, at the end of World War Two, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and they wanted to warn the public, while putting pressure on world leaders to make sure nuclear weapons were never used again. 

The hands of the clock have moved 25 times. In 1947, they started at seven minutes to midnight. At the end of the Cold War, in 1991, they had fallen back to 17 minutes to midnight. 

Current Atomic Bulletin president Rachel Bronson, said that “every major country, including the UK, is investing in their nuclear arsenal as if nuclear weapons are usable for a very long time. This is a very dangerous time… leaders are not acting responsibly.

Nuclear weapons experts, who have been involved in setting the Doomsday Clock for many years, were shocked when President Putin put Russia’s nuclear forces on alert after the invasion of Ukraine. Indeed, the whole world reacted with horror to the Russian leader’s threat, but it seems he had made a deliberate calculation.

After all this is exactly what nuclear weapons are for. They are there to terrorize people in order to make certain your military forces, have a certain “freedom of action.”

The Russian President believed that by making these statements he could deter the West from intervening in Ukraine which was a correct calculation, to a certain degree…

Whether you like it or not — this is how deterrence works.

And that is how Detente kept the Cold War from turning to a Nuclear Armageddon for the past 79 years…

I know, you thought that the Cold War was over…

Didn’t you?

Sorry to burst your bubble …

Because there is no hiding from nuclear war…

Because this is how a nuclear war would kill you — and almost everyone else.

Here is a simulation of soot injected into the atmosphere after a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. (Courtesy Max Tegmark / Future of Life Institute)

This summer, the New York City Emergency Management department released a new public service announcement on nuclear preparedness, instructing New Yorkers about what to do during a nuclear attack. The 90-second video starts with a woman nonchalantly announcing the catastrophic news: “So there’s been a nuclear attack. Don’t ask me how or why, just know that the big one has hit.” 

Then the PSA video advises New Yorkers on what to do in case of a nuclear attack: Get inside, stay inside, and stay tuned to media and governmental updates.

But nuclear preparedness works better if you are not in the blast radius of a nuclear attack. Otherwise, there’s no going into your house and closing your doors because the house will be gone. Now imagine there have been hundreds of those “big ones.” That’s what even a “small” nuclear war would include. If you are lucky not to be within the blast radius of one of those, it may not ruin your day, but soon enough, it will ruin your whole life.

Yours,

Dr Churchill