Hiroshima Resets “Peace Clock” after North Korea Nuclear Test

If you have been hiding under a rock, you might not have known that North Korea recently did an underground nuclear test. The test was condemned by many groups around the world, and led to the resetting of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum’s Peace Watch Tower, which records the number of days since the last nuclear test.

The peace clock has two digital displays. One shows the number of days since the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and the other shows the number of days since the last nuclear test was conducted. Before being reset on the 10th of October, the number was at 40, which was the number of days since the US conducted a subcritical nuclear test at the end of August.

Over the past 5 years, the clock has been reset 11 times following each of the nuclear tests conducted by the US (some in cooperation with the UK) and Russia.

Museum director Koichiro Maeda says, “We are concerned that more nations will start to believe their national security can be strengthened by possessing nuclear weapons. It is extremely foolish.”

We live in a strange world, but I hope everyone understands M.A.D., or mutually assured destruction.

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