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8. The Doomsday Clock Is Now 2 Minutes Closer To Global Disaster

Reply to Tansy_Gold (Original post)

Fri Jan 23, 2015, 07:01 AM

Jan 2015

http://www.businessinsider.com/doomsday-clock-winded-3-minutes-to-midnight-2015-1

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) moved the hands of their Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight last night.

It now stands at 11.57 p.m., the closest it’s been to midnight since 1984.

The Doomsday Clock is the BAS’s symbolic countdown to a possible global catastrophe. The group, which is advised by a board containing 18 Nobel Laureates, meets twice annually to discuss global events. In 1947, they launched the Doomsday Clock as a way to:

“…reflect basic changes in the level of continuous danger in which mankind lives in the nuclear age”

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