‘Doomsday Clock’ moves 30 seconds closer to midnight
The hands of the famed “Doomsday Clock” have moved 30 seconds closer to midnight, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists revealed Thursday morning.
The clock was introduced by the Chicago-based scientific journal 70 years ago as a graphical means of expressing the existential threat posed to life on Earth. In 1947, the nonprofit organization notes, there was but one technology believed to hold the potential to destroy the planet: nuclear energy and weaponry. Today, Rachel Bronson, the Bulletin’s publisher, noted in a statement released early Wednesday , climate change is an additional central threat, with such factors as artificial intelligence and cyberthreats also emerging on the radar.
Even “fake news” merits mention, according to Bronson, with Pakistan’s foreign minister having tweeted a bellicose response late last year to a fabricated news story about Israel.
And with Russia and the U. S., by the Bulletin’s estimate, in control of 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons, concerns about any escalation in Russo-American tension, including but not limited to Moscow’s alleged insinuation of itself into the U. S. presidential election in November , represent a manifold threat.
The uncertain fate of the Iranian nuclear agreement spearheaded by the Obama administration is named as another risk.
Even as the minute hand was nudged nearer the maximal peril that the midnight position represents — the clock has never had a reading later than 11:58 , and it moved as far as 17 minutes from midnight in the hopeful days following the end of the Cold War — the climate threat has actually receded somewhat of late, owing to the Paris climate accord, which U. S. President Donald Trump has signaled a desire to review.
The half-minute move was the first in the clock’s history.
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