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Doomsday Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight─── 11:00 Fri, 27 Jan 2023
The Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward, largely due to the dangers of the ongoing war in Ukraine.
The clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight – the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.
About the Doomsday Clock
Founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein and the University of Chicago, scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, created the Doomsday Clock two years later, using the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero) to convey threats to humanity and the planet.
The Doomsday Clock is set every year by the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes 10 Nobel laureates.
The clock has become a universally recognised indicator of the world’s vulnerability to a global catastrophe caused by manmade technologies.
Source: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
