* I would also suggest you research Admiral Richard E. The clock’s time was originally set to seven minutes to midnight and the Bulletin informed the world of the urgency and dangers of the new threat the world faced of nuclear warfare and advanced weaponry. It appeared on the Bulletin for the first time, then went from newsletter form to magazine. Official Time Of The Doomsday ClockThe Doomsday Clock was started in 1947, due to the threat of nuclear warfare. For this reason, our level is an overall indicator for military readiness rather than simply how close we are to a nuclear war. Consumer Confidence is high, and there are love and peace throughout the world (snort). The latest economic data are all positives, and most Geopolitical news is boring. VIX is below 15, and the S&P 500 Put/Call Ratio is well below 1:0. Since we base our DEFCON status levels on both military readiness and nuclear threat risk factors, our alert level does not always indicate the risk of nuclear war since both factors are tied together.įor example, if we were to be at risk for a nuclear war the United States military readiness would be raised by default, the same as if we had a terror threat or any other kind of threat. The 5 levels of the DEFCON Trade Readiness indicator: DEFCON-5: The lowest level of market jitteriness. The current DEFCON level is understood to be 5 the lowest. The system has five levels of readiness, or states of alert, increasing in severity from DEFCON 5 the least severe to DEFCON 1 the most severe.
Intelligence briefs the world over, are given DEFCON level as a matter of report but unless there is a sudden change, most troops don’t really hear about it.
I suspect youre getting your information from, which is inot/i affiliated with the government. Answer (1 of 3): You can’t and anyone telling you different does not know what they are talking about. Each branch of the military has its own DEFCON level, so there is no single 'level' to report anyway. Defcon Level monitors military readiness, terror threats as well as nuclear threats to the United States, and to the world globally. The defense readiness condition, dubbed DEFCON, is an alert system used by the US military to indicate the risk of nuclear war. The United States does not release information as to the current DEFCON level.