NEW YORK — Scientists revealed on Tuesday that the 'Doomsday Clock' has been moved up to 90 seconds before midnight -- the closest humanity has ever been to armageddon.
EVA HAMBACH/AFP via Getty ImagesNEW YORK — Scientists revealed on Tuesday that the"Doomsday Clock" has been moved up to 90 seconds before midnight -- the closest humanity has ever been to armageddon.
Bronson noted that U.N. Secretary General António Guterres warned in August that the"world has entered a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War." For the past 75 years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a nonprofit media organization comprised of world leaders and Nobel laureates, has announced how close it believes the world is to collapse due to nuclear war, climate change and, most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The challenges outlined by today's announcement by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists could not be more global in nature," Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland and the one-time U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said during Tuesday's news conference."No one country can tackle them on their own no matter how large their population, how strong their economy or how feared their military.
The Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine has come under repeated fire since Russia took it over in March 2022, increasing the risk of nuclear disaster.
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