Doomsday Clock moves 2 minutes closer to midnight
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.028587
Science : The Doomsday Clock is maintained by the board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) as a representation of how close the world is to a global disaster. On 22 January, BAS executive director Kennette Benedict announced that the organization would be moving the clock hands 2 minutes closer to midnight, setting the symbolic time as 11:57pm. Benedict said that the reasons for the change include the recent stalling in nuclear disarmament talks and the growing threat of climate change. The time change is just the 18th since the clock’s creation in 1947. It has ranged from just two minutes to midnight in 1953 to 17 minutes to midnight in 1991.
