Introducción
| Author | Ignacio Cartagena/Vicente Garrido Rebolledo |
| Pages | 21-30 |
Introducción
COLECCIÓN Derecho Público y Ciencia Política 21
Corría el año 1947 cuando Hyman Goldsmith, cofundador del pres-
tigioso Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, pidió a su amiga artista Maril Langs-
dorf (esposa de Alexander Langsdorf, uno de los artífices del «Proyecto
Manhattan») que diseñara la portada del número de junio de su revista.
Pocos podrían imaginar que el sintético dibujo de un reloj que Langsdorf
envió a Goldsmith (destinado, no lo olvidemos, a una revista académica
vinculada a la Universidad de Chicago y de difusión muy reducida por en-
tonces) iba a convertirse, con el tiempo, en la más poderosa metáfora de
la amenaza que representa el arma nuclear y su posible utilización; y prác-
ticamente nadie hubiera podido concebir que, mientras escribimos estas
líneas, a tres décadas del fin de la Guerra Fría y casi ocho de la Segunda
Guerra Mundial, las agujas de ese reloj se encontrarían más próximas a la
medianoche de lo que nunca antes estuvieron.
El «Reloj del Apocalipsis» (Doomsday Clock, en inglés), cuyo dibujo
ha venido apareciendo desde entonces en la portada bimensual del Bulle-
tin of the Atomic Scientists, simboliza cuánto tiempo nos queda antes del
«Día del Juicio Final», entendido como tal la inminencia de un «holocausto
nuclear». Cuando prevalece un clima de cierta distensión y cooperación
entre las grandes potencias, la aguja retrocede algunos minutos respecto
de la medianoche; cuando las tensiones globales amenazan con volar los
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