The "Doomsday Clock" has moved one second closer to midnight amid the growing specter of global nuclear conflict. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which created the symbolic warning of manmade disaster, says the clock is now 89 seconds away from midnight, the closest it has ever been in its history.
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00:00Atomic scientists have moved the doomsday clock one second closer to midnight,
00:05the closest it has ever been in the clock's history.
00:09In setting the clock closer to midnight, we send a stark signal.
00:14Because the world is already perilously close to the precipice,
00:18any move towards midnight should be taken as an indication of extreme danger
00:23and an unmistakable warning.
00:26Every second of delay in reversing course increases the probability of global disaster.
00:34The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists says Russian nuclear threats, global tensions,
00:40military uses of AI, and climate change are all pushing humanity closer to extinction.
00:46The Bulletin created the doomsday clock during Cold War tensions in 1947
00:51to warn the public of man-made threats to our survival.
00:55Scientists including Albert Einstein and the so-called father of the atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer,
01:01founded the non-profit Bulletin after the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan
01:07at the end of World War II.