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Doomsday Clock is reset to 100 seconds until midnight, closest ever

Doomsday Clock is reset to 100 seconds until midnight, closest ever

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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/doomsday-clock-reset-100-seconds-until-midnight-closest-ever

Former California Governor Jerry Brown (left), former Irish President Mary Robinson (middle), and former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reveal the 2020 Doomsday Clock.

Information warfare and a looming space arms race are among the emerging threats that led a group of scientists today to reset their iconic Doomsday Clock to 100 seconds to midnight, the closest it has been since the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists started the annual exercise in 1947. Midnight on the clock marks the symbolic moment when humankind could annihilate itself.

Doomsday Clock is reset to 100 seconds until midnight, closest ever

Jan 23, 2020, 11:27pm UTC
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/doomsday-clock-reset-100-seconds-until-midnight-closest-ever > Former California Governor Jerry Brown (left), former Irish President Mary Robinson (middle), and former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reveal the 2020 Doomsday Clock. > Information warfare and a looming space arms race are among the emerging threats that led a group of scientists today to reset their iconic Doomsday Clock to 100 seconds to midnight, the closest it has been since the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists started the annual exercise in 1947. Midnight on the clock marks the symbolic moment when humankind could annihilate itself.