‘Doomsday Clock’ set at 90 seconds to midnight

Atomic scientists set the "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before on Tuesday, saying threats of nuclear war, disease, and climate volatility have been exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, putting humanity at greater risk of annihilation.

The "Doomsday Clock," created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to illustrate how close humanity has come to the end of the world, moved its "time" in 2023 to 90 seconds to midnight, 10 seconds closer than it has been for the past three years.

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44 comments

    1. 2012 was a let down too, wasted all this money on a Chevy pick up from the Superbowl commercial for nothing

  1. But what time zone is the doomsday clock in? I want to know if I still have time to finish this book I’m reading? ( Also I find it funny that it’s scientists doing this very unscientific thing )

    1. @xryanv this was desigened as a tool to alert the public to the political closeness of a war involving nukes. with Putin at the helm of Russia and his major desire to recreate stalinist Russia along with his willingness to do anything to attain his personal wishes, the statistical likely hood has increased exponentially of that happening. now ir you are a nuclear physicist or a statistical mathemetician, this may not be a tool you would use but for the average person, it says how dangerous to the entire world that bald twit is.

    1. I just watched Threat Level Midnight, today. Might go do some drugs now…
      I’m back. Those drugs really hit the spot.

  2. I made it through Y2K so i think i will make it through this one! Oh ya i also survived the AZTEC callander too! Oh ya plus RASPUTIN’S end of days!

  3. When I was young just before Y2K I asked my great Aunt if the world will end. She said it ended 5 times since she was born. Lol.

  4. Well, my internal clock is never wrong, and it says we are more like 45 seconds to midnight! Metaphorically speaking, of course >.>

  5. And if everything changed tomorrow and stayed that way for 2 decades … they’d still find a reason to move it forward.

  6. I remember the school drills for the Cuban missile crisis (duck and cover under the desks). Put it to a world wide vote on the internet, and you are much more likely to get a meaningful setting.

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