Doomsday?

Chicago's Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the group that has maintained the Nuclear Clock since 1947, wound the minute hand closer to the grim hour for the first time since 2002, when it was frozen at seven minutes to midnight.

Rationale? The modern dangers such as global warming and the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea.

The irony, of course, is that the proliferation of Nuclear power is the solution to the carbon energy economy, as the Alberta Oil Sands are learning day by day.

But, just so we are clear, the Nuclear Ambitions of North Korea and Iran? Not the Russians and Americans actually pointing long range Nuclear weapons at each other. Talk about "self fulfilling relevance."