'Existential catastrophe'Īccording to the Clock, the world has remained equally vulnerable to the threats posed by war, climate change and pandemics for the third year in a row.īulletin of the Atomic Scientists president Rachel Bronson urged world leaders to do a "far better job of countering disinformation, heeding science and cooperating" in order "to avoid an existential catastrophe, one that would dwarf anything it has yet seen. The Doomsday Clock is set by the Bulletin's Science and Security Board in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes 11 Nobel laureates. In 1991, amid the 'end of history' euphoria and optimism as the Soviet Union collapsed, the clock was put back to 17 minutes to midnight, but it has been ticking forward since Image: Chicago Tribune/picture alliance Initially its main focus was the prospect of a world-ending nuclear conflagration in the Cold War, but the group has since broadened its scope to include other threats to humanity and the planet, such as climate change. Two years later, the group created the Doomsday Clock to symbolically tick towards midnight, the point of a hypothetical global catastrophe. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein and the University of Chicago. The group of scientists that set the Clock did welcome "last year's leadership change in the United States" suggesting it had "provided hope that what seemed like a global race toward catastrophe might be halted and even reversed." The precision of the syncronization with the web server is 0 second. Share Link: Support Bug Repair Suggest a Feature Get help & support. This mean that it is synchonizing in real time with our server clock. The "Doomsday Clock" which represents the perils to human existence remains at 100 seconds to midnight this year, with advances like COVID-19 vaccines offset by rising misinformation and threats of conflict. You can create and share Themes customize an existing Theme, save it under a new name, then use its share link.
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