A Chicago-based group of scientists have once again warned the world is closer than ever to human-made destruction by moving the symbolic “Doomsday Clock” up to 85 seconds to midnight.

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With great fanfare last week, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists — the keepers of the Doomsday Clock — inched their symbolic ...

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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists members, from left, Jon B. Wolfsthal, Asha M. George and Steve Fetter, reveal the Doomsday Clock, set to 85 seconds to midnight, during a news conference at the ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor, not a mechanical forecast, but it is built on concrete assessments of global risk. Created in the late 1940s by scientists who had worked on nuclear weapons, it was ...