The time on the symbolic Doomsday Clock — which has sat dangerously close to midnight for three years in a row — will be recalculated next week by scientists to measure how close the world is to an…
the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — which includes 13 Nobel laureates — cited nuclear war, climate change, cyber-enabled information warfare and the dire erosion of international security and political infrastructure as the most pressing threats to humanity.The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists organization was founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein and other scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, which produced the first nuclear weapons during the Second World War.
Humanity was supposedly the safest in 1991 when the hands were furthest from midnight, set at 17 minutes until the apocalypse as the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty — ending the Cold War and simmering the threat of nuclear war. To calculate the countdown to Doomsday this year, the Bulletin will take into account the Russia-Ukraine war, bio-threats, proliferation of nuclear weapons, continued climate crisis, state-sponsored disinformation campaigns and disruptive technologies.
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