Since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) annually adjusts its symbolic Doomsday Clock, which indicates how close humanity and the planet are to complete disaster. This year, we’re closer than ever, the scientists announced on Thursday (23 January).
“It is now 100 seconds to midnight,” declared the Bulletin’s president, Rachel Bronson, at a Washington D.C. news conference while a black cloth was lifted to reveal the time on the “end of the world clock”.
The clock was first created by US scientists working on the atomic bomb-building Manhattan Project during World War II to warn humanity of the dangers of nuclear war.
In 2019, the clock was set at two minutes to midnight.
The risk of civil collapse from nuclear weapons and the climate crisis is at a record high, according to US scientists and former officials, calling the current environment “profoundly unstable”.
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