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Doomsday clock remains unchanged at 100 seconds to midnight

Like last year, the world’s famous atomic scientists have not changed the time of Doomsday Clock this year too. Even in the year 2022, the world is standing just 100 seconds (100 seconds to midnight) away from doom as per this clock. In view of the dangers of the world’s top nuclear scientists, since 1947, they have been telling how far the world is from the Great Destruction. Announcing the annual Doomsday Clock in Washington DC, US on Thursday, scientists said that the danger of destruction is still looming over the whole world.

Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Doomsday Clock, said in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientist that the clock is keeping its pace dangerously. It reminds us how much work needs to be done to ensure a safe and healthy planet. We must continue to move the hands of the clock away from midnight. The closer we are to midnight, the more danger we are in. Right now it’s 100 seconds or just under two minutes from midnight.

The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock that tells the possibility of global catastrophe due to human activities. 12 midnight in the clock is considered a sign of great devastation. After the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, this clock was created by scientists to warn the world of the man-made danger.

12 o’clock midnight in the clock means that the end of the world is very near, or the possibility of a nuclear attack in the world is 100 percent.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ (BAS) releases such reports every year. In 1991, at the end of the Cold War, this clock was at most 17 minutes away from midnight. Its time is determined by a group of scientists who set its time by looking at the events of the year.

This can include politics, energy, weapons, diplomacy and climate science, as well as potential sources of threat such as nuclear threats, climate change, bioterrorism and artificial intelligence.

The original setting of the clock in 1947 was seven minutes before midnight. Since then it has been set back and forth 24 times. This clock was at the top when the Cold War was in 1953. It was 17 minutes away from midnight in 1991 (when the Cold War ended). Whereas in 2020 and 2021, it has remained 100 seconds away from midnight.

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