![]() Also bear in mind that the rump steak is not from some old cow grazing in a Port Moresby backyard. The top Continental Hot Dogs were K11.55/kg, $4.62/kg.īear in mind that these are premium products. The excellent rump steak I bought in a Port Moresby supermarket the other day was K25/kg, that’s $10/kg, a price you haven’t seen in Australia for a long time. Let’s also look at products locally grown in both places. Looks like Australian consumers are being ripped off, doesn’t it? If the Papua New Guinea prices can be taken as a guide to what the prices of these goods in Australia could be, then someone is making a killing between the Chinese factory and the Australian consumer. The current rate of exchange is about K2.50 = $1.00, so K20 is the same as $8 and K45 is the same as $18. Now let me translate that into Australian dollars for you. The figures looked much like the Australian figures, 20-45, but the prices were in kina, the Papua New Guinea dollar, so they were K20-K45. I did notice, though, that the stock looked very similar to what I has been looking at in Australia. Pottering around a store in Port Moresby the other day I also failed to find a polo shirt I liked. Prices were in the $20-$50 range but there wasn’t a decent polo shirt to be had in my XXL size. I wanted good quality cotton ones that would hold their shape, with a breast pocket (I need somewhere to put my 11 year old phone so I can entertain myself when I bend over by seeing it slide out and bounce on concrete). These failures of political leadership endanger every person on Earth.Just before I left Australia, I dashed around in search of a couple of polo shirts. Speaking of nuclear weapons modernization, climate change and the continued existence of nuclear weapons arsenals, the Bulletin writes that "world leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe. In the face of such complex problems, it is difficult to see where the capacity lies to address these challenges," the Bulletin writes. "The challenges to rid the world of nuclear weapons, harness nuclear power, and meet the nearly inexorable climate disruptions from global warming are complex and interconnected. The United States and Russia are in talks to renew something akin to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, and the Bulletin is slightly more optimistic on international efforts to combat climate change. North Korea tests a nuclear weapon, and the West is worried that Iran wants one, too. Russia and the United States still have nuclear warheads aimed at each other, and India and Pakistan conduct rival nuclear tests.Īmerica withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, 20 years after it was signed. The group notes at the time that there are more than 40,000 nuclear weapons around the world. This is the farthest the clock's minute hand has been from doomsday, indicating the group's momentary optimism at the official end of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall falls, and Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania break out from Soviet control. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev have signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which bans a specific type of nuclear weapon. More pessimism over the state of diplomacy between the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States boycotts the Olympic Games in Moscow. United States and the Soviet Union still view nuclear weapons as an integral component of their national security. And, the Bulletin adds, the United States and Soviet Union continue to modernize their own nuclear capabilities. India runs its first test of a nuclear device. The United States and Soviet Union sign a pair of treaties aimed at slowing the arms race. Most major world powers sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Partial Test Ban Treaty, which bans atmospheric testing of nuclear devices. The nuclear arms race begins when the US tests a massive hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific, 1000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped at Hiroshema.įor the first time, the United States and Soviet Union appear eager to avoid direct confrontation in regional conflicts. ![]() Alexander Langsdorf moves the minute hand up by four minutes after a Russian nuclear test.
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