US EditionDoomsday Clock ticks closer to midnight
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists cited nuclear tensions, climate change, and emerging technological risks in moving the Doomsday Clock to its closest point ever, 85 seconds to midnight.
- The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight at a Carnegie Endowment news conference in Washington, reflecting rising global risks.
- The Bulletin cited aggression by major powers and widening risks, reflecting rising nuclear tensions alongside climate change, biological risks, mis- and disinformation, and disruptive technologies.
- The Doomsday Clock was originally created in 1947 to symbolize the threat of global destruction; it was designed by Martyl Langsdorf and has tracked arms-control gains and condemned escalations.
- The Clock shapes public debate on existential risks by simplifying complex threats for the public, but the Bulletin said it has not changed national government behaviour and functions more as a diagnostic.
- Expanding threats has blurred the Clock's message as the Bulletin said adding climate alarmism and disruptive technologies risks muddling signals, while sustained alert breeds psychic numbing with few fixes.
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Metaphorically speaking, humanity is now 85 seconds away from the end of the world, a global panel of experts says in its annual report. The so-called doomsday clock has been pushed back four seconds towards midnight by artificial intelligence, synthetic organisms, and the politics of major powers.
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The Independent TribuneDoomsday Clock ticks closer to midnight
Earth is closer than it's ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become "increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic," a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday and advanced its "Doomsday Clock" to 85 seconds till midnight.
The apocalypse has never been so close. Doomsday Clock hands, which tick the fate of humanity at the pace of progress and of the new technologies that we implement, have been carried forward. Now there are only 85 seconds to midnight, now symbolic of the global catastrophe. With the stern look scientists of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a non-profit organization founded in 1947, have updated the clock created by scientists such as Alber…
There is only one minute and 25 seconds left for the end of the world. It is a prediction, which the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists makes every year with its Doomsday Clock. Never, since they created it, the world had been so close to the end: 85 seconds. Actually, it is a metaphor. Scientists make calculations and warn us of how long it seems to be left for humanity to destroy the planet. And we seem to be doing well: every year we make it w…
The clock of the apocalypse, a metaphorical counter intended to represent how close mankind is to destruction, approached more than ever at midnight on Tuesday: 85 seconds for the blow of fate. It is the darkest prospect to date of the future of the Earth of the makers of the clock, a non-profit organization and publication called Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which has put the clock in time every year since 1947.
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