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Bulletin of Atomic Scientists says we're inching closer to annihilation due to the war in Ukraine. What am I supposed to do with that information?

On Tuesday, a gaggle of depressing scientists gathered in front of the ginormous Doomsday Clock to share that very

same message: Things are bad. In fact, things are worse than they’ve ever been. My very unscientific response: “OK?? We all knew that???” Yesterday, the Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest to midnight the clock has ever been. This nihilistic interactive prop theater event first appeared in 1947, following the invention of the atomic bomb. Itswas to be a “design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making”—namely, nuclear war and climate change.

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