{"id":1682325,"date":"2022-10-10T19:50:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T23:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1682325"},"modified":"2022-10-10T19:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T23:52:47","slug":"one-in-six-chance-of-worldwide-nuclear-war-physicists-post-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-in-six-chance-of-worldwide-nuclear-war-physicists-post-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"One in Six Chance of Worldwide Nuclear War: Physicist\u2019s Post Goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fone-in-six-chance-of-worldwide-nuclear-war-physicists-post-goes-viral%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1682325&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-russia\">Russia<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a> war still raging, physicist and cosmologist Max Tegmark has estimated the odds of global <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nuclear-war\">nuclear war<\/a> in the near future at one in six, in an article and a social media post that went viral.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish-American MIT professor made the prediction in an Oct. 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesswrong.com\/posts\/Dod9AWz8Rp4Svdpof\/why-i-think-there-s-a-one-in-six-chance-of-an-imminent\">post<\/a> on LessWrong, a rationalist community blog created by American artificial intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> is among those who share Tegmark\u2019s concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNuclear war probability is rising rapidly,\u201d Musk wrote in response to the Tweet from Tegmark linking to his blog post. Tegmark had praised Musk for \u201curging de-escalation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in part to Musk\u2019s attention, Tegmark\u2019s Tweet went viral. It has been shared nearly 34,000 times on Twitter alone.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1.tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI7S074-FILEDIMAGE-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk waves during a joint news conference with T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert (not pictured) at the SpaceX Starbase, in Brownsville, Texas, on Aug. 25, 2022. REUTERS\/Adrees Latif <\/p>\n<p>Musk, who has used his Starlink satellites to assist Ukraine following Russia\u2019s invasion, has been criticized by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), and others for urging the pro-Ukraine West to pursue a peaceful resolution to the conflict, with concessions to both Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>In a Tweet responding to Musk\u2019s recommendations, Zelenskyy adviser and psychological warfare expert Oleksiy Arestovych posted a doctored, clearly satirical, image of the tech titan in handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few days, Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed Ukraine for an Oct. 8 explosion that destroyed part of the Kerch Bridge, a key supply line between Russia and Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>Russia responded on Oct. 10 by hitting cities across Ukraine with cruise missiles. A Russian cyberattack targeted airports across the United States on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Crimea bridge attack and predictable subsequent escalation happened after I\u2019d done my original analysis,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Russia-Ukraine war still raging, physicist and cosmologist Max Tegmark has estimated the odds of global nuclear war in the near future at one in six, in an article and a social media post that went viral. 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