Doomsday Clock set to 90 seconds to midnight amid Ukraine war
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Atomic scientists are set to give an estimate on how close they believe humanity is to annihilation due to existential threats such as nuclear war and climate change.
The Doomsday Clock has been moved closer to midnight as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has heightened concerns about global annihilation.
In an update Tuesday, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset the clock from 100 seconds to 90 seconds — the closest it has ever been to midnight.
The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that visualizes the threat humanity faces from unchecked scientific and technological advances, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — a group of experts in nuclear weapons, biological weapons and climate change.
The hands of the clock are moved closer to or further away from midnight based on the scientists’ reading of existential threats at a particular time.
Doomsday occurs at midnight, so the closer to midnight the clock is set, the more peril they believe the world is in.
The clock was set at 100 seconds to midnight in 2020 and had remained unchanged since.
This year, its setting reflects for the first time a world in which Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has revived fears of nuclear war.
Since its debut in 1947, the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock has been moved 25 times, including on Tuesday.
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