US EditionDoomsday Clock ticks closer to midnight
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists cited escalating nuclear tensions, climate change, and other existential risks as reasons for setting the clock to its closest point ever.
- On January 27, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight, the closest it has been, unveiling the change at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.
- The Bulletin cited rising aggression among major powers, noting increased hostility from Russia, China, and the United States alongside nuclear tension, climate change, disruptive technologies, misinformation, and biological risks.
- Since its creation by the so-called Chicago group of Manhattan Project scientists, Martyl Langsdorf's design made the Doomsday Clock a clear visual metaphor for nuclear risk.
- The setting functions as a diagnostic tool rather than a remedy, as the Doomsday Clock cannot compel national governments to change behavior, and sustained alerts risk psychic numbing among the public.
- Historically, the clock moved back when diplomacy succeeded, such as during major arms control treaties and the Copenhagen Summit , but broadening the clock now muddles its message for policymakers.
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Metaphorically speaking, humanity is now 85 seconds away from the end of the world, a global panel of experts says in its annual report. The so-called doomsday clock has been pushed back four seconds towards midnight by artificial intelligence, synthetic organisms, and the politics of major powers.
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Earth is closer than it's ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become "increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic," a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday and advanced its "Doomsday Clock" to 85 seconds till midnight.
The apocalypse has never been so close. Doomsday Clock hands, which tick the fate of humanity at the pace of progress and of the new technologies that we implement, have been carried forward. Now there are only 85 seconds to midnight, now symbolic of the global catastrophe. With the stern look scientists of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a non-profit organization founded in 1947, have updated the clock created by scientists such as Alber…
There is only one minute and 25 seconds left for the end of the world. It is a prediction, which the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists makes every year with its Doomsday Clock. Never, since they created it, the world had been so close to the end: 85 seconds. Actually, it is a metaphor. Scientists make calculations and warn us of how long it seems to be left for humanity to destroy the planet. And we seem to be doing well: every year we make it w…
The clock of the apocalypse, a metaphorical counter intended to represent how close mankind is to destruction, approached more than ever at midnight on Tuesday: 85 seconds for the blow of fate. It is the darkest prospect to date of the future of the Earth of the makers of the clock, a non-profit organization and publication called Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which has put the clock in time every year since 1947.
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