![]() I keep this tape around because when the world ends it’ll be over before we can say what we wanted to say. And, I’ll tell you, those guys in the military bands knew what I was up to. That would be the last thing CNN played before we–before we signed off. Then, as things cranked up, I asked if they’d play ‘Nearer My God, to Thee’ to put on videotape just in case the world ever came to an end. So we got the combined Armed Forces marching bands together–the Army, Navy, Marine & Air Force bands–& took them out to the old CNN headquarters & we had them practice the National Anthem for a videotaping. But with CNN–a 24-hour-a day channel–we would only sign off once & I knew what that would mean. Normally, when a TV station begins & ends the broadcast day, it signs on & off by playing the National Anthem. ![]() In a 1988 interview with The New Yorker, Turner spoke about how the tape was made. He had an eerie and somber-yet patriotic-video made for CNN to broadcast on such an occassion, but with a band playing the song “ Nearer, My God, to Thee” instead of the national anthem. While many television stations ended their broadcast day by playing “ The Star-Spangled Banner” as a sign-off, Turner knew he only wanted CNN to sign off once: at the end of the world. ![]() Media mogul Ted Turner, founder of CNN, understood well the threat of nuclear war during that time. Tuesday's announcement was the first since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, although the panel issued a warning during its last "Doomsday Clock" news conference that Ukraine was a potential flashpoint in an increasingly tense international security environment.CNN became the first round-the-clock news channel in 1980, during the Cold War era. "It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet," the Bulletin, which created the clock, said on its website, also calling it "a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making." "The continuing stream of disinformation about bio weapons laboratories in Ukraine raises concerns that Russia itself maybe thinking of deploying such weapons."įor the past 75 years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a nonprofit media organization comprised of world leaders and Nobel laureates, has announced how close it believes the world is to collapse due to nuclear war, climate change and, most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic. The additional concern of Russia's "false accusation" that Ukraine is planning to use radiological dispersal devices, chemical and biological weapons "take on new meaning," she added. ![]() ![]() "The war's effects also undermine global efforts to combat climate change as countries dependent on Russian oil and gas have expanded investment in natural gas," Bronson said. Secretary General António Guterres warned in August that the "world has entered a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War." "The possibilities that the conflict can spin out of anyone's control remains high."īronson noted that U.N. "Russia's thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict by accident, intention or calculation is a terrible risk," said Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Scientists revealed on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" has been moved up to 90 seconds before midnight - the closest humanity has ever been to armageddon.īulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the metaphorical clock up 10 seconds from where it had stayed for the past two years, citing the escalation in Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022. ![]()
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