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"Doomsday Clock" moved 30 seconds closer to midnight
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GoldenRod
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"Doomsday Clock" moved 30 seconds closer to midnight
http://thebulletin.org/sites/default/files/Final%202017%20Clock%20Statement.pdf
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board takes a broad and international view of existential threats to humanity, focusing
on long-term trends. Because of that perspective, the statements of a single person—particularly one not yet in office—have not historically influenced the board’s decision on the setting of the Doomsday Clock.
But wavering public confidence in the democratic
institutions required to deal with major world threats do affect the board’s decisions. And this
year, events surrounding the US presidential
campaign—including cyber offensives and
deception campaigns apparently directed by the
Russian government and aimed at disrupting the
US election—have brought American democracy
and Russian intentions into question and thereby
made the world more dangerous than was the case a year ago.
For these reasons, the Science and Security Board
of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has decided to move the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to catastrophe. It is now two minutes and 30 seconds to midnight
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The minute hand is now closer to the hour representing humanity’s doom than it has been since 1953, when it hit 2 minutes, the closest it has ever been to midnight, following the testing of hydrogen bombs by both the U.S. and Soviet Union.
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Posted 1/26/17 12:01 PM  |
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