Nine Minutes to Midnight On June 11, the Bulletin's board of directors moved the hands of the Doomsday clock five minutes closer to midnight. Their reasons, presented at a Chicago press conference and reprinted in the September/October issue of the Bulletin, include the addition of two more states, India and Pakistan, to the list of declared nuclear powers. The events on the Indian subcontinent would be worrying enough on their own. But the directors also had harsh words for the failure of the superpowers--long after the end of the East-West confrontation--to make deep and meaningful reductions in nuclear arms, or to stand down the roughly 7,000 nuclear warheads still on alert-weapons that could be fired with less than 15 minutes notice. The Bulletin clock now stands at nine minutes to midnight. . . .And from "In Brief" In a tie-in with the asteroid-meets-earth movie "Armageddon," Nestlé introduced the Nuclear Chocolate bar. According to Nestlé, "The word 'nuclear' is used in a fun, 'cool' manner to communicate the product's energy." Not everyone was amused by the marketing ploy. California-based Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment is calling for a boycott of Nestlé to push the message that "there's nothing fun or cool about nuclear weapons, nuclear fallout, or nuclear waste." But Nestlé isn't the only company mining the nukes-and-candy connection. Mega Warheads--available in "5 Mega Flavors"--offers a free Wally Warhead character to anyone who sends in 12 proofs-of-purchase. Wally is pictured on the front of the package, his lips puckered by the sour candy, a mushroom cloud erupting from his head. And then there's the granddaddy of all nuclear confections: the Atomic Fireball, a red-hot jawbreaker made by the Ferrara Pan Candy Company since 1948. After a taste-test at Bulletin headquarters, we're all in favor of dismantling Warheads and decommissioning Nuclear Chocolate--but we have a soft spot for Atomic Fireballs. At a nickel apiece, they're the best bargain of the Atomic Age.