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Doomsday Clock hits 90 seconds to midnight, its most dire prediction ever [1]
['Ellen Francis', 'Scott Dance']
Date: 2023-01-23
The world is 90 seconds away from “midnight,” according to the Doomsday Clock, the closest it has ever been to the symbolic hour of apocalypse.
The people who run the clock say that’s largely a reflection of Russia’s war in Ukraine — including of the potential use of nuclear weapons and because the conflict is encouraging continued dependence on fossil fuels in Europe. For the first time, the announcement of the clock’s movement toward catastrophe was released in Russian and Ukrainian as well as English, something Rachel Bronson, CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said the organization hopes brings the dire forecast “the attention it deserves.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/01/23/what-how-doomsday-clock/
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