Time check: Examining the Doomsday Clock’s move to 100 seconds to midnight

Time check: Examining the Doomsday Clock’s move to 100 seconds to midnight

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/time-check-examining-the-doomsday-clocks-move-to-100-seconds-to-midnight/

Today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists released a statement that the group's Science and Security Board had moved the hands on the symbolic Doomsday Clock forward by 20 seconds to 100 seconds before midnight. Since the advent of the Doomsday Clock—even in the peak years of the Cold War—the clock's minute hand has never before been advanced past the 11:58 mark.

In a statement on the change, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists President and CEO Rachel Bronson said: