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Scientists Reset 'Doomsday Clock' Toward Danger Friday March 1, 2002 | by Michael Tivana - back to Tribal Messenger
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The keepers of the "Doomsday Clock" on Wednesday advanced its hands nearer to the midnight hour that symbolizes nuclear weapons conflict, its closest since the Cold War's end. This was the report.
Comments - In a documentary film produced by the MacArthur Foundation about the personnel and training involved in launching nuclear missiles the squadron commander from the 4315th Combat Training Group Squadron at Vandenburg Air Force Base, California, made the following statements: As you go through our program, decide in your own mind that our way of life is such and that our command and control system is such that the President of the United States is not going to ask you to insert those launch keys until there's just no other option -- it's the FINAL SOLUTION. [Where have we heard that last phrase before?] "Unconditional and highest freedom of will comes from obedience." --Heinrich Himmler, ReichsfÜhrer-SS
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