Politician of the hours of the Yom Kippur we just steps away from the disaster – RIA Novosti

Scientists have estimated the probability of global catastrophe on Earth. This information is published on the website of the journal Bulletin of the atomic scientists.

The experts left hand on the dial of the Yom Kippur at around 23:57 midnight, which means the onset of a global catastrophe on Earth. The main problem of humanity, according to scientists, is the proliferation and modernization of nuclear weapons.

The “Doomsday Clock” was developed by the creators of the first American atomic bomb in 1947 to monitor the nuclear threat on the planet. Initially, the clock showed 23:53. Since its existence, clocks are moved 20 times. The last time they were transferred in 2015 at 23:57. At that time, scientists believed that the major problems of humanity that could lead to a global cataclysm, have been linked to climate change, the confrontation of East and West, and the improvement of nuclear weapons.

Deputy Director of the National Institute of modern ideology, a political scientist Igor Shatrov believes that the world really is on the brink of disaster.

“serious scientific work is unlikely to be called, is the result of some analysis. This is the opinion of the expert group related to nuclear technology, related to world politics, people who can argue their position. And I think the arguments seriously, we really are just a few steps from the disaster. The situation is very tense, and the threat of the world increase. First of all, increased threat of nuclear terrorism. And I think that world simply underestimate this threat “, – said Igor Shatrov on Radio Sputnik.

According to him, the main threat to mankind today is the situation in the Middle East.

” The situation is a bit worse was Only in 1953, when the Soviet Union and the United States have tested a hydrogen bomb. Recently, North Korea said the testing of the hydrogen bomb, but I believe that it is simply a bogey, which periodically waving. Still, it’s a civilized state, is unlikely to thermonuclear war. But the probability of obtaining nuclear weapons by those who go against the existing world order, I mean terrorists in the Middle East, is the most terrible, the most dangerous challenge to humanity. Now the threat is only strengthened “, – the politician said.

However, he pointed out that mankind is threatened, and other problems.

” There are also the climate threat, the lack of fresh water in Africa , the problems of technological character. All this is recorded so-called Doomsday Clock. We must understand that the world is full of challenges, and the more technologically advanced civilization becomes, the more it becomes more dangerous to humans, “- concluded Igor Shatrov.