“We have been on the verge of extinction six times”

During the Cuban missile crisis in the 1960s, the Doomsday Clock, which collects the opinions of members of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, noted that we were 12 minutes away from a large-scale nuclear catastrophe. Today mark 90 seconds. Decipher this climb Nobel Peace Prize winner Carlos Umaña (Costa Rica, 1975), co-president of the International Association of Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), invited to Barcelona by the Social Observatory of the Fundació ‘la Caixa’.

It is explained by three causes: 1/ the inflammatory rhetoric of the leaders of certain nuclear powers, 2/ the climate crisis, with the potential to generate extremist speeches and aggravate conflicts over resources, and 3/ the possibility of accidental detonations.

“La suerte es lo que nos ha mantenido con vida”

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Esta última siempre existió, ¿no?

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