BREAKING: “A Time of Unprecedented Danger”: The doomsday clock is just 90 seconds to midnight due to the war in Ukraine – mankind was closest to annihilation in 76 years
- The doomsday clock has been pushed back to just 90 seconds before midnight
- This is a 10-second loss compared to 2022, scientists announced on Tuesday
- The change is due to the war in Ukraine and Russia’s threat of nuclear weapons
The doomsday clock is the closest thing to a global catastrophe after this annual update on Tuesday, which put the hypothetical timekeeper at 90 seconds to midnight.
The change is largely due to the war in Ukraine, which the Science and Security Panel of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will fear for its second year.
Coupled with Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons, this potentially catastrophic event reminds the world that escalation of the conflict poses a terrible risk.
Mankind had never come so close to annihilation since the first atomic bombs were dropped at the end of World War II, the scientists proclaimed miserably.
The doomsday clock is the closest thing to global catastrophe after Tuesday’s annual update, which put the hypothetical timepieces at 90 seconds to midnight
Every January since 1947, the Bulletin shows how close mankind is to annihilation.
And in 2022, the clock was 100 seconds from our doom.
Founded by US scientists involved in the Manhattan Project that led to the first nuclear weapons during World War II, the clock is a symbolic countdown to represent how close humanity is to completing a global catastrophe.
Artist Martyl Langsdorf was commissioned to create the clock and was given the commission to create an image that, according to Eugene Rabinowitch, the first editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, “would frighten people to rationality.”
The change is largely due to the war in Ukraine, which the Science and Security Panel of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will fear for its second year
The time is determined by the group of scientists who study events throughout the year.
This can include politics, energy, weapons, diplomacy, and climate science, along with potential threat sources such as nuclear threats, climate change, bioterrorism, and artificial intelligence.
And it’s been pushed back and forth 24 times since 1947.
However, Tuesday marks the closest time the clock has hit midnight.