On Thursday, the Doomsday Clock’s time will be updated, when it could tick slightly toward or away from the apocalypse.
Chicago-based artist Martyl Langsdorf designed the clock in the wake of World War II, working with her husband Alexander Langsdorff, a Manhattan Project physicist, and other researchers who helped get the fledglingoff the ground. The Doomsday Clock’s experts have the unenviable job of identifying and weighing potential apocalypses, as well as our progress as a society—or lack of it—in avoiding them.
“The nuclear threat has not gone away in any shape or form,” says John Mecklin, editor in chief of the. “Use of any significant number of those nuclear weapons would alter civilization in a terrible way. Whether through accident, miscalculation, or terrorist use, the likelihood that there will be nuclear explosions is high enough that our board considers it extremely worrying.”
In 2016, US president Barack Obama began a $1 trillion nuclear modernization program, which appears to have had the effect of encouraging rivals like Russia and China to build up their own arsenals. His successor, Donald Trump, added so-called “low-yield” nukes to the mix, weapons that can be launched from submarines and have nearly the explosive power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Between them, Trump and George W. Bush withdrew the US from all but one arms control treaty with Russia.
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