{"id":2735,"date":"2018-01-25T10:51:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T18:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2018-01-25T10:51:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T18:51:27","slug":"it-should-be-30-seconds-to-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2735","title":{"rendered":"It Should Be 30 Seconds to Midnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2018\/01\/25\/after-a-missile-scare-and-insult-war-with-north-korea-its-time-to-check-the-doomsday-clock\/\">doomsday clock,<\/a> that is. When it was last 2 minutes, the leaders in the nuclear standoff were Dwight D. Eisenhower and Joseph Stalin. Stalin was a truly awful guy, but he was not mentally unstable like <em>both<\/em> Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump are. The danger of nuclear war is thus far, far greater this time.<\/p>\n<p>Two mentally stable leaders, both with nukes versus two mentally unstable ones, both with nukes. No comparison. In making the clock two minutes to midnight, the <em>Bulletin<\/em> is guilty of normalizing Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists doomsday clock, that is. When it was last 2 minutes, the leaders in the nuclear standoff were Dwight D. Eisenhower and Joseph Stalin. Stalin was a truly awful guy, but he was not mentally unstable like both Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump are. The danger of nuclear war is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}