Doomsday Clock moved forward to 90 seconds till midnight

24th January 2023


The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has today moved the Doomsday Clock forward from 100 to 90 seconds till midnight – the closest it has been since the clock’s inception in 1947.

The new time reflects the "unprecedented danger" of a human-made global catastrophe, and is largely due to the ongoing proliferation of nuclear weapons and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However, it ha

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