Returning from his midday swim, Kennedy passed by the Oval Office before heading up to the residence for lunch. Originally built for Franklin Roosevelt, the indoor pool in the West Wing basement had recently been refurbished with a mural of a sailing scene in the Virgin Islands-a gift from the president’s father.
Kennedy’s doctors had prescribed swimming for his back, but it was also a way of relaxing. The president usually swam twice a day, just before lunch and just before dinner, often with his longtime aide Dave Powers. Kennedy was determined not to miss his regular swim. The Cuban missile crisis on Saturday, October 27, 1962, reached its moment of maximum peril, but John F. The panel noted that disinformation also played a big role in keeping the clock at the closest point to midnight in history, particularly on its impact on democracy, climate change, and the pandemic, which is preventing people from taking action against global warming and the climate crisis, as well driving growing scepticism in democratic systems are that in currently in place.Excerpted from One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, by Michael Dobbs, to be published this month by Knopf © 2008 by the author. The continued proliferation of nuclear weapons, the weak global actions to address and combat climate emergency – in light of the COP26 UN climate summit where countries agreed to only “ phase down” and not “phase out” coal – and the rise of biological threats that was highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic have been cited to be the main factors in the decision to not move the clock hand. “In fact, it reflects the judgement of the board that we are stuck in a perilous moment, one that brings neither stability nor security.” But steady is not good news,” said Sharon Squassoni, the co-chair of the Bulletin’s science and security board. “The Doomsday Clock is holding steady at 100 seconds to midnight. You might also like: ‘Climate Clock’ Unveiled in New York City While the panel notes that there have been some global positive developments in the past few years, including the renewed talks over the Iran nuclear programme and a US administration that believes in climate science where President Biden has made a pledge to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, they are not enough to move the clock back. But on recent years, the scientific panel has also been taking into account the effects of climate change and other threats to humanity in setting the clock. When the clock was first introduced in the wake of the Manhattan Project, it was to show the world how close the planet was to annihilation by nuclear weapons.
“The Doomsday Clock continues to hover dangerously, reminding us how much work is needed to ensure a safer and healthier planet.” “The world is no safer than it was last year at this time,” said Rachel Bronson, the president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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