The 2023 countdown time on the clock is '90 seconds to midnight,' 10 seconds closer to 'doomsday' than it had been set at last year.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that it has moved its metaphorical Doomsday Clock closer than ever to midnight.
The 2023 Doomsday Clock is displayed before a live-streamed event with members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on January 24, 2023 in Washington, DC.WASHINGTON — The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Tuesday that it has moved its metaphorical Doomsday Clock closer than ever to midnight, the hypothetical hour of Armageddon, reflecting experts' assessment that humanity is confronting unprecedented threats to its existence.
thinly veiled threat to deploy nuclear weapons in the conflict raised the global threat to humanity, the group said. The renewed global threat of nuclear war was compounded by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, experts noted. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by the late physicist and Nobel laureate Albert Einstein and other scientists who had worked on the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb.
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