It's the first update to the clock since Russia's invasion of Ukraine renewed fears of global nuclear war.
Two years later, as those same scientists contemplated a world in which two atomic weapons had been used in Japan, they gathered to discuss the threat to humanity posed by nuclear war.
Martyl Langsdorf, an artist and wife of Manhattan project physicist Alexander Langsdorf Jr., came up with the idea of a clock showing just how close things were."It gave the sense that if we did nothing, it would tick on toward midnight and we could experience the apocalypse," Bronson said.For the past two years the Doomsday Clock has stood at 100 seconds to midnight, closer to destruction than at any point since it was created in 1947.
Though technology makes possible amazing and wonderful things, it can also pose risks. In 1947 the biggest of those was nuclear war. Since then the bulletin has added others, including climate change, bioterrorism, artificial intelligence and the damage done by mis- and disinformation. Over the years the clock has been referenced by the White House, the Kremlin and the leadership of many other nations.
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