Media release: January 15, 2010

ICAN is encouraged by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ decision to move the ‘Doomsday Clock’ from 5 to 6 minutes to midnight, but there is still much to be done to halt climate change and abolish nuclear weapons.

ICAN Australia Chair, Associate Professor Tilman Ruff said,  “The shift from 5 to 6 minutes to midnight on the doomsday clock is a positive development, however it is futile in trying to slow climate change in ways which increase the risk of nuclear war.”

“The world is not now safe for a rapid global expansion of nuclear energy as any solution to climate change.

“Without solutions in place to control the dual process of uranium enrichment and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel to extract plutonium, will only serve to increase proliferation risks.

“Achieving and sustaining a world free of nuclear weapons will be much swifter in a world without nuclear power,” concluded Associate Professor Ruff

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