{"id":246430,"date":"2016-05-28T06:43:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T06:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ticking-closer-to-nuclear-midnight\/"},"modified":"2016-05-28T06:43:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T06:43:42","slug":"ticking-closer-to-nuclear-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ticking-closer-to-nuclear-midnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticking Closer to Nuclear Midnight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Exclusive:<\/strong> President Obama embraced Japanese survivors of the Hiroshima bomb, but his policies, such as heightening tensions with Russia, have raised the potential for a far worse nuclear catastrophe, explains Jonathan Marshall.<\/p>\n

By Jonathan Marshall<\/p>\n

Even if you\u2019ve never won an office raffle, a sports pool or a lottery, consider yourself supremely lucky. Unlike the atomic bomb victims who were recognized by President Barack Obama\u2019s visit to Hiroshima, you\u2019ve never experienced the horrors of nuclear war.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s nothing any of us should take for granted, says former Defense Secretary William Perry. On at least three occasions, he noted<\/u><\/a> recently, the U.S. military received false alarms of a Soviet nuclear attack.\u00a0At least twice the Soviet military went on high alert from similar alarms. And anyone who lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 survived \u201cas much by good luck as by good management,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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