{"id":226425,"date":"2025-01-28T22:54:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T22:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/doomsday-clock-moves-one-second-closer-to-catastrophe\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T22:54:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T22:54:05","slug":"doomsday-clock-moves-one-second-closer-to-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/doomsday-clock-moves-one-second-closer-to-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomsday Clock Moves One Second Closer to Catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The world is closer than ever to the apocalypse.<\/p>\n

That was the dire assessment issued on Tuesday by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a nonprofit organization and publication whose signature Doomsday Clock has been estimating \u2014 in the stark terms of \u201cminutes to midnight\u201d \u2014 how close humanity is to annihilation since 1947.<\/p>\n

The organization said that it had moved the clock\u2019s hands closer to that dreaded day \u2014 from 90 seconds to midnight to 89 seconds to midnight. It cited the threats posed by nuclear weapons, climate change and the potential misuse of biological science and artificial intelligence \u2014 existential dangers it said had been exacerbated by the spread of misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn setting the Clock one second closer to midnight, we send a stark signal: Because the world is already perilously close to the precipice, a move of even a single second should be taken as an indication of extreme danger and an unmistakable warning that every second of delay in reversing course increases the probability of global disaster,\u201d the bulletin said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The clock is set by the organization\u2019s Science and Security Board<\/a>, made up of experts in nuclear technology, global security, climate science and other fields. The clock was created in 1947, when the organization\u2019s concerns revolved around the prospect of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. The time then was set at seven minutes to midnight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n