The Doomsday Clock will stay at two minutes to midnight, the same time as it was last year and the closest it’s ever been to the hour standing in for the apocalypse. Though a nuclear arms race, climate change, and fake news continue to threaten our existence, a panel of experts don’t think the threat has changed enough since last year to merit shifting the minute hand closer to humanity’s doom.
The clock itself is a gimmick — a symbolic threat assessment made by a panel of experts at the non-profit Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. According to them, the clock is designed to warn people “how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making,” with midnight standing in for the point of no return. Last…
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