Scientists moved the ‘Doomsday Clock’ 30 seconds closer to midnight on Thursday, meaning humanity is the closest it has ever been to armageddon. Comments made by President Trump on nuclear weapons and climate change sparked scientists and scholars from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to move the hands of the clock to two and a half minutes to midnight. The clock was last changed in 2015, from five to three minutes before midnight.
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For the first time in 64 years, atomic scientists reset their symbolic "Doomsday Clock" to its closest time to midnight on Thursday, saying the world was closer to catastrophe due to threats such as nuclear weapons, climate change and Donald Trump's election as U.S. president. The timepiece, devised by the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and displayed on its website, is widely viewed as an indicator of the world's vulnerability to disaster.
The "clock's" hands were moved to two minutes and 30 seconds to midnight, from three minutes.
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