Scientists Push Doomsday Clock Closer to Midnight Todd Leopold - CNN
go to original January 26, 2015

Back in 1947, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists started using a symbolic clock, aka doomsday clock, to track the possible threat of atomic Armageddon. But since then, other factors have threatened the existence of humanity on our planet. And today, because of those threats, they moved the clock two minutes closer to midnight, pushing it to three minutes till ... (AJ+)

The world is closer to doomsday.

That's the message from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which moved its iconic Doomsday Clock up two minutes last week. The clock now stands at three minutes to midnight, the "latest" it's been since 1984, when the Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Union was a major issue.

"Today, unchecked climate change and a nuclear arms race resulting from modernization of huge arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity. And world leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe," said Kennette Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in a news release. "These failures of leadership endanger every person on Earth."

The Bulletin's Science and Security Board looks at global issues on a regular basis and decides whether to move the minute hand of the clock, with particular stress on the status of nuclear arms and reaction to climate issues.

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