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I don't disagree. But with 6000, even a fraction could cause some irreparable damage to the world.
I’m always surprised when the Doomsday Clock is referred to as if it’s something that actually exists and has real-world implications. It’s just Groundhog Day for cynics. >

And considering when it was first created in 1947, they set the time at 7 minutes to midnight. The scale is entirely meaningless. >

does the clock ever move backwards? >

Yep, it moves backwards all the time! >

Do you think it's an actual clock?
It doesn't count time. It's just a metaphor for the current state of the world. The number goes down when things get shitty. Happens a lot. >

So..it’s an equation? >

Not really, it's a non-profit group of scientists that move it to what they believe is an accurate assessment to their arbitrary clock time. I don't really put a lot of belief in it's accuracy since I really dont think we're a minute and a half closer, on this 17 minute at most clock, then we were when kids were practicing nuclear annihilation drills in elementary school. >

Note the cuban missile crisis: October 1962, the Bulletin's Doomsday Clock remained unchanged: It stood at 7 minutes to midnight and the following year, in 1963, the clock's hands moved to 12 minutes to midnight, when the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty went into effect >

In fairness, the Russians and Americans were still relatively sane.  Enemies for sure, but sane. >


In fairness, the Russians and Americans were still relatively sane. Enemies for sure, but sane.

They viewed each other as "equals" when it came to force, hence the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) tag.
Now? No longer equals. Russia is becoming the new North Korea as far as yapping goes, but they still have the leftover nukes from those days. Is Putin crazy enough to go scorched earth? Do they work? Do cooler heads prevail? Time will tell.
Russian media is now painting this as a holy war against the west, and all the west has done is supply Ukraine with gear that we were about to decomission anyways. Now we are starting to send some "current" stuff. Interesting times. >

In fairness, leftover "Working" Nukes is probably only a few dozen max.
Still a very bad day. But not global annihilation >

Yeah, I highly doubt that of the close to 6000 nukes they have, only a "few dozen" are operational. But whatever you need to tell yourself to believe that Russia going nuclear is not a viable threat. Which seems to be quite common on here. 
> Putin is a batshit insane monster hellbent on world domination
>Use nukes???? Of course not! Putin isn't crazy! >

/# nukes != # of deliverables
Both Russia and the US have thousands of warheads that theoretically could be used as weapons but only a fraction are actually deployed and ready to be used at a moments notice.