One Minute, Twenty-five Seconds...

With the Nuclear Doomsday Clock currently standing at 85 seconds to midnight, the current New START treaty on limiting nuclear weapons proliferation runs out tomorrow, the 4th of February. Given the state of the world just at the moment and with two of the most out-of-touch-with-reality men in charge of half of it, gives cause for a modicum of concern, especially when both of these despots would rather not have had the treaty in place at all: Trump's take on the expiry? '..."a bad treaty...If it expires, it expires. We just negotiate a better treaty."...' As for the Russians, they wer never happy being restricted to 'just' the 1,550 warheads allowed under the treaty for each side [both hold far more than that, anyway], and effectively ducked out of the treaty under the cloak of the pandemic in 2020. What of the other nations still holding such weapons?

Well, the US and Russia hold ninety-percent of the world's nuclear arsenal. Having said that, the other ten-percent is neither negligible nor ignorable, but the major focus is still on the old Cold War powers, with their combined nuclear weapons potential explosive yield still standing in the region of 1.5 Gigatons of TNT, nowhere near the estimated equivalent yield of the extinction event involving the Chicxulub  asteroid collision that wiped out most of life on Earth, but significant enough to send mankind back to the Stone Age. And these fuckwits are arguing that the Treaty was unfair on them ['bad treaty'] and that should have as many warheads as in the Cold War 'heyday' in order to ensure 'fairness'? These two old men need putting out to graze on poison ivy, before it's simply too late for anyone to be left around to care...