T he hands of the symbolic Doomsday Clock are set at 89 seconds to midnight - closer to global catastrophe than ever before.
The Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which runs the clock, decided to move the clock one second closer to midnight because of climate change, nuclear threats and biological hazards.
The world is closer than ever to destruction, according to the Doomsday Clock, an attempt by the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to warn world leaders and civilians of man-made ...
The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history.
The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, set at 89 seconds to midnight ... symbols in the past 100 years.” The closer it moves to midnight, the closer humanity is to the ...
Since its inception, the Doomsday Clock has been adjusted 25 times. The furthest it has been from midnight was 17 minutes ... it was set at 100 seconds due to escalating nuclear tensions and ...
The group devised the Doomsday Clock in 1947, as a way to symbolize ... US and Iran made the time move from 2 minutes to 100 seconds to midnight. Add the continued neglect of climate change ...
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