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"We Are Closer To Armageddon Than Ever Before"

Comment by Larry Ross, April 9, 2007

I met Dr Caldicott on her lecture tour of New Zealand in the 1980s. She complimented NZ on establishing it's nuclear free zone in spite of opposition from the US and its other allies.

Now she is warning that we are closer to a nuclear conflict than ever. She believes that the hands of the "Doomsday Clock" should have been moved closer to midnight than the recent two minute shift to 5 minutes before midnight. I have reached the same conclusion.

Her recent book "War In The Heavens" explains why the situation is so dangerous. Also she believes the US talk of dropping nuclear weapons on Iran is another indication of how perilous the situation is.

My own observation is that the US mass media hardly ever mentions the danger of nuclear weapons anymore. The media are inferring that new US nuclear policies are perfectly normal and acceptable, so people seem to accept them. These are that the US can use nuclear weapons in conventional war situations and that the President may wage a pre-emptive nuclear war against any nation on any flimsy grounds he may supply.

With apathy deadening their will and ignorance and fear gripping their minds, the majority of people won't act or take any remedial action to prevent a nuclear war. They seem unable to grasp the fact that a nuclear war is a real threat to themselves and family.

Although humanity could have a marvellous future if we were able to apply the rational part of our brains to our problems - this seems impossible.

It looks as if the universe's only known species of intelligent life is on the verge of self-extinction. Too few are aware of the seriousness of our problems, few want to consider the evidence and fewer care enough to try and remedy the situation.

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The Nobel Peace Prize nominee on nukes, global warming,
and why we're closer to Armageddon than ever

by Kevin Uhrich, March 25, 2007

Dr. Helen Caldicott has been advocating her own inconvenient truth for over a quarter-century, but her battle against nuclear power and nuclear weapons is still as controversial – and as necessary – as it has ever been. While Oscar-winning presumptive president Al Gore was still a congressman from Tennessee, and voting on what was then the largest military buildup in history, Caldicott was warning of the risks posed by both the nuclear arms race being orchestrated by the Reagan administration and the continued use of commercial nuclear power in communities around the United States.

Much as private-citizen Gore has managed to frighten the world into action by accurately depicting a planet that appears to be in revolt against centuries of relentless environmental pollution, Caldicott also painted a frightening picture of a post-apocalypse or post-meltdown world that she envisioned if things had remained as they were. Like the former vice president, a documentary in which Caldicott was featured, 1982's If You Love This Planet, won an Academy Award, and, also like Gore, she was once nominated for a Nobel Prize, by no less than two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling of Caltech, who won Nobel laurels for both his work in science and with the anti-nuclear movement of the 1960s.

In 1985, a group that Caldicott helped found, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, won a Nobel Prize for its efforts at ending the arms race.

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