![]() ![]() Manhattans curiosity with the DC Universe is revealed as the planet teeters on the edge of the Super-War. Meticulously assembled by writer Geoff Johns and artist Gary Frank, the maxi-series. Concluding just over 2 years after the release of issue 1 left the rest of the DC Universe to continue like normal. The final issue of Doomsday Clock was released in December of 2019. Thanks to the heavy delays of Doomsday Clock, there were a great number of continuity errors between it and the rest of the DC Universe. ![]() The end result has led to some changes in DC comics overall. Doomsday Clock brought the Watchmen characters into the main DC universe. The authors further urged nuclear-armed states to adopt a no-first-use policy, take their nuclear arsenals off of hair-trigger alert and for all nuclear-armed countries currently involved in conflicts to pledge “publicly and unequivocally” they will not utilize nuclear weapons in those conflicts.The authors also underscored that nuclear-armed countries must work towards a “definitive end” of the nuclear threat by supporting the “urgent commencement of negotiations” to “eliminate their nuclear weapons.”Last year, the review of the UN Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, considered the bedrock of nuclear disarmament, failed to pass after the principal countries failed to reach an agreement.“ur world is increasingly wracked by conflicts, and, most alarmingly, the ever growing prospect of the unthinkable nuclear war,” Argentine Ambassador Gustavo Zlauvinen said at the time. The critically acclaimed team of writer Geoff Johns and artist Gary Frank continue the groundbreaking miniseries bringing the world of WATCHMEN to DC. DC: 10 Things We Now Know After Doomsday Clock 12. More than 100 medical journals issued a joint call in a rare show of unity on Thursday, calling for the urgent elimination of nuclear weapons while calling the threat of nuclear catastrophe “great and growing.”The editorial, simultaneously published in major medical journals that typically compete for exclusives, including National Medical Journal, Lancet, JAMA, and New England Journal of Medicine, among others, calls on the “nuclear-armed states” to “eliminate their nuclear arsenals before they eliminate us.”The call comes during growing tensions between Russia, China and the West as well as multiple missile tests by North Korea.Titled “Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War,” the editorial warned that even “a ‘limited’ nuclear war involving only 250 of the 13,000 nuclear weapons in the world could kill 120 million people outright and cause global climate disruption leading to a nuclear famine, putting two billion people at risk.” It adds that a large-scale war between the United States and Russia “could kill 200 million people” shortly after it starts while ushering in a nuclear winter that could kill “5-6 billion people” and threaten humanity’s very existence.The editorial also contends that a limited nuclear confrontation could quickly escalate to full-blown nuclear war. Published The long-awaited conclusion of Doomsday Clock redefines the relationship between the DC Universe and Watchmen with an emotional finale. ![]()
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