Scientists May Be About To Wind The Doomsday Clock Forward To Its Most Critical Level Since The Height Of The Cold War
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Scientists May Be About To Wind The Doomsday Clock Forward To Its Most Critical Level Since The Height Of The Cold War | Business Insider.
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Peter Farquhar
Jan 21, 2015
In 2002, Physics Nobel Prize winner Dr Leon M. Lederman had the honour. Picture: Getty Images
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) have declared they will make a “major announcement” when they meet Friday morning to decide whether to move the Doomsday Clock’s hands.
The Doomsday Clock is the BAS’s symbolic countdown to a possible global catastrophe. The group, which is advised by a board containing 18 Nobel Laureates, meets twice annually to discuss global events. In 1947, they launched the Doomsday Clock as a way to:
When launched, it was an indication of how close the world was to a nuclear catastrophe, but it has been amended in modern times to also reflect climate change scenarios.“…reflect basic changes in the level of continuous danger in which mankind lives in the nuclear age”
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