Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight
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The clock is a symbolic way to show the public how close scientists believe the world is to a human-made apocalypse.
The Doomsday Clock moved to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest ever, due to rising threats from nuclear weapons, climate change and disinformation. View on euronews
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WASHINGTON — Scientists say the Doomsday Clock is now closer to “zero hour” than ever before. This week, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the clock at 85 seconds to midnight, a new record for how close the world is judged to be to a major disaster. Midnight on the clock stands for a global catastrophe.