Speakers Added to Doomsday Clock Announcement

Speakers Added to Doomsday Clock Announcement
	We have exciting news: California Governor Jerry Brown, former Secretary of State George Shultz, and former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry will be joining the Doomsday Clock international news conference tomorrow--Tuesday, January 26--at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., via a live, two-way link from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. The Stanford portion of the news conference will kick off an event inspired by the Doomsday Clock and the existential threats it represents. Stanford students and faculty, as well as students from local high schools, will gather at the Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall, to participate in a program that examines the global events and trends that drive the time on the Clock. You can see the entire news conference on the Bulletin's website. And if you haven’t taken our Doomsday Clock Survey, we invite you to do so now. Survey results are not taken into account by the Science and Security Board, whose decision on the 2016 time of the Clock has already been made, but we would like to know your thoughts about the existential threats of our time. The poll will close at 12 p.m., EST, tomorrow. It is now 3 minutes to midnight. Watch the live-stream on Tuesday, January 26th, as we announce the time for 2016. News event speakers at the National Press Club event are: · Rachel Bronson, executive director and publisher, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; · Lawrence M. Krauss, chair, Bulletin Board of Sponsors, foundation professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics departments, and director, Origins Project, Arizona State University. · Thomas R. Pickering, member, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, and Jordan; · Sharon Squassoni, member, Bulletin Science and Security Board, senior fellow and director, Proliferation Prevention Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC; and · Sivan Kartha, member, Bulletin Science and Security Board, senior scientist and climate change expert, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), and co-leader of the SEI research theme “Reducing Climate Risk.” Speakers at the Stanford University event are: · Jerry Brown, Governor of the State of California; · George P. Shultz, Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford distinguished fellow, Hoover Institution, and former U.S. Secretary of State; and · William J. Perry, senior fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute, and former U.S. Secretary of Defense.