The Doomsday clock has remained at 100 seconds to midnight for the second year running, in part due to the ‘ineffectual response to Covid-19’ by world governments.
This is the closest the clock has been to midnight in its 73-year history, with climate change, increased nuclear tensions and the global pandemic bringing us ‘closer to the apocalypse than ever before’, according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
The clock was founded by US scientists involved in the Manhattan Project that led to the first nuclear weapons during WW2 and is a symbolic countdown to represent how close humanity is to complete global catastrophe.
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