The Doomsday Clock Has Officially Been Moved Up -- And It's Not Looking Good

In 1945, scientists from the Manhattan Project founded a nonprofit organization called the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists after becoming concerned about the dangers of the first atomic weapons. Two years later, they created a symbolic "Doomsday Clock" that “conveys how close we are to destroying our civilization with dangerous technologies of our own making.” This year, scientists from the organization -- along with a board of sponsors including 15 Nobel Laureates -- have moved the clock's minute hand to two and a half minutes until midnight, making the symbolic countdown to the apocalypse the shortest it's been since 1953....

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