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#nuclearweapons

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Curious Magpie

Okay - I had a really troubling dream last night.

Most of the details are a little fuzzy in terms of where I was and who I was with other than knowing that I was in a place I don't recognize and with people I don't recognize in my waking state.

The gist is that someone had announced that they were going to set off a nuclear weapon. And no one in my community was acting as if it was a big deal. Just going about their day-to-day lives and occasionally chatting about it as if it was something very unreal or something that would only impact other people.

And then, I looked out the door of where I was living and I could see the growing dome-like shape rushing toward me. I slammed the door closed and ran into a hallway and grabbed my daughter (who was very young in the dream but is now in her 40s).

I held her close, kissed her head and told her I loved her. And then I very deliberately made a decision to stay as conscious as possible while this devastation raced toward us. My daughter screamed, "my hair" and then it overtook us. I felt no pain, nothing, my awareness slowly faded away.

Needless to say I woke up immediately trying to catch my breath. Oddly, I wouldn't necessarily consider it a nightmare, I've had nightmares and they terrify me to the very bones.

This was troubling and disturbing but in a way reminded me of our lives right now.
#dream #catastrophe #NuclearWeapons

MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History July 15, 1955: Eighteen Nobel laureates signed the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four other Nobel laureates. Werner Heisenberg, of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, was 1 of the signers. A new Mainau Declaration was signed in 2015. This one calls for urgent action on the Climate Crisis.

Part of the original Mainau Declaration reads as follows: “We do not deny that perhaps peace is being preserved precisely by the fear of these weapons. Nevertheless, we think it is a delusion if governments believe that they can avoid war for a long time through the fear of these weapons. Fear and tension have often engendered wars. Similarly, it seems to us a delusion to believe that small conflicts could in the future always be decided by traditional weapons. In extreme danger no nation will deny itself the use of any weapon that scientific technology can produce. All nations must come to the decision to renounce force as a final resort. If they are not prepared to do this, they will cease to exist.”

While both threats remain, the nuclear threat will destroy the planet, and life on it, much more suddenly. And the U.S. and Western European powers, including Israel, seem much more prepared to use them than any time in the past. Indeed, in part because of this increasing willingness to use nuclear weapons, willingness to escalate military conflicts that risk nuclear miscalculation, and the rapid proliferation of a new nuclear arms race between the U.S., Russia, and China, in 2023 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (founded by Einstein and Oppenheimer in 1945) pushed the Doomsday Clock forward to 90 seconds before midnight, the closest it has ever come to Armageddon (at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis it was at 2 min. before midnight). And then, in 2024, advanced it further, still, to 89 seconds before midnight. The first paragraph of their current status warning reads:

“Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear escalation. China, Russia, and the United States are all spending huge sums to expand or modernize their nuclear arsenals, adding to the ever-present danger of nuclear war through mistake or miscalculation.”
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nukes #nuclearweapons #bomb #nobel#peace #coldwar #russia #china #imperialism #cubanmissilecrisis #ukraine #armsrace #einstein #Oppenheimer #Heisenberg #ClimateCrisis #armageddon

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