The world has been 100 seconds away from “midnight” – the symbolic hour of apocalypse – since 2020, according to the Doomsday Clock.
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At the time, the clock symbol was designed as an analogy for the threat of nuclear war, spurred by the Cold War arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. The scientists originally behind the clock included some who had participated in the Manhattan Project, which produced the world’s first atomic bomb.
Critics have dismissed it as fearmongering, or questioned its usefulness and the methodology. In a 2015 essay, a University of Oxford researcher in global catastrophic risk cast doubt on the clock as a measurement of “actual risk,” writing that it was more a reflection of the “strong feeling of urgency” about the risks among the team who operate it.The clock was set to 100 seconds in January 2020, the first time it passed the two-minute mark since its creation.
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