Commentary: Nuclear threats? Climate change? What catastrophe will lead to doomsday?
by Alex Wellerstein, Los Angeles Times
Feb 07, 2023
3 minutes
If you needed a reminder that all is not well with the world, the Doomsday Clock moved forward once again in January. It’s now set for 90 seconds until midnight — closer to doom than ever before.
The last time it changed was in 2020, when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — which created the clock in 1947 — jumped it forward 20 seconds. The group attributed this year’s time shift mostly to Russia’s war in Ukraine, now almost at its one-year mark. They also cite concerns relating to
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