INTERVIEW: Doomsday Clock chief slams ‘absolutely idiotic’ US-Israeli war on Iran
The US-Israeli war against Iran is “absolutely idiotic”, the head of the organisation that sets the world ‘Doomsday Clock’ has warned, adding that diplomacy is the “only way” to avert a potentially catastrophic escalation.
John Mecklin, editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, told Euractiv that there is currently a “low probability” that the US or Israel could use nuclear weapons on Iran, or that Tehran – despite its “degraded state” – would intentionally target Israeli nuclear sites.
“But… accidents, miscalculations, crazy stuff: it all happens in wars,” said Mecklin. “And so you can’t rule it out as long as this, what I view as a completely ridiculous attack on Iran, continues. There is no telling what the results might be.”
“Truly dire radioactive and nuclear results might be a low probability, but you can’t say it’s no probability,” he added.
His comments come just weeks after the Bulletin, which was founded by…
