The latest events of the Doomsday Hour
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The phrase “Doomsday Clock” tops the global search engines, after the atomic scientists announced that the time of the hour is closer to midnight “according to the Doomsday Clock”, more than ever before, indicating the approaching end of the world.
Atomic scientists said the doomsday clock was 90 seconds short of midnight on Tuesday, noting that the threats of nuclear war, disease and climate variability have been exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, putting humanity at greater risk of annihilation.
Doomsday approaching
The doomsday clock created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, to show how close humanity is to the end of the world, has moved its "time" in 2023 to 90 seconds to midnight, 10 seconds closer than it has been for the past three years.
The midnight time in the Doomsday Clock represents the theoretical time for annihilation and the end of the world, as the clock's hands are moved closer or farther from midnight based on scientists' reading of existential threats at a particular time.
It is reported that the clock has been set to 100 seconds to midnight since 2020, which was indeed the closest it got to midnight.
Reasons for the Doomsday Clock approaching midnight.
Russia's veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalating conflict by accident, intent or miscalculation is a terrible risk, Rachel Bronson, the Bulletin's president and CEO, said at a news conference in Washington, adding that the odds of conflict spinning out of anyone's control remain high. .
For his part, Sivan Kartha, member of the Board of Directors of Publications and Scientist at the Stockholm Environmental Institute, explained: “Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels, having rebounded from the economic downturn of the Corona virus to an all-time high in 2021, continue to rise. In 2022 and reach another record high, as emissions continue to rise, extreme weather continues, and they were even more clearly attributed to climate change.”
The Bulletin, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization, updates the clock annually based on information about catastrophic risks to the planet and humanity, and the organization's board of scientists and other experts in nuclear technology and climate science, including 13 Nobel laureates, discuss and determine global events. Place the clock every year.
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The "doomsday clock" was set at 90 seconds to midnight on Tuesday, the nearest hour ever, as midnight marks the moment when Earth will be uninhabitable for humanity, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which created the clock in 1947.
The publication said in a press release that the decision to move the clock 10 seconds forward this year was largely due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the increased risk of nuclear escalation, while the constant threats posed by the climate crisis, as well as the collapse of standards and institutions needed to reduce the risks associated with biological threats, played a role. Like Covid-19, too.
"We live in a time of unprecedented peril, and the 'doomsday clock' time reflects this reality," Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the publication, said in a statement. "It is a decision our experts do not underestimate. The United States government and its allies in NATO and Ukraine have multiple channels." For dialogue, we urge leaders to use them all to the fullest extent possible to turn back the clock.
The "Doomsday Clock" has been ticking for 76 years, but it is not an ordinary clock as it tries to measure how close humanity is to destroying the world, and from 2020 to 2022, the clock is set to 100 seconds to midnight.
It is reported that the watch was not designed to measure and definitively decide on existential threats, but instead to spark conversations about difficult scientific topics such as climate change, according to the publication.
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What happens when the "doomsday clock" strikes?
It wouldn't be possible to change the clock to midnight, Bronson notes, "because at that moment we wouldn't be able to," adding, "We wouldn't have any adequate tools to respond."
And she noted that the countdown may become more complicated as midnight approaches with regard to climate change. "We are talking about a real and evolving crisis. The decisions we take today will be felt by us 30 years later," she said.
Bronson hopes that the historic clock will not only be a warning, but also an indication of reassurance by reminding people, "We have set the clock back before, and we will be able to do it again."
Doomsday Clock
The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.[1] Maintained since 1947, the clock is a metaphor for threats to humanity from unchecked scientific and technological advances. A hypothetical global catastrophe is represented by midnight on the clock, with the Bulletin's opinion on how close the world is to one represented by a certain number of minutes or seconds to midnight, assessed in January of each year. The main factors influencing the clock are nuclear risk and climate change.[2] The Bulletin's Science and Security Board monitors new developments in the life sciences and technology that could inflict irrevocable harm to humanity.[3]
The clock's original setting in 1947 was seven minutes to midnight. It has since been set backward eight times and forward 17 times for a total of 25, the farthest from midnight being 17 minutes in 1991, and the nearest being 90 seconds, set on January 24, 2023.
The clock was moved to two and a half minutes in 2017, then forward to two minutes to midnight in January 2018, and left unchanged in 2019.[4] In January 2020, it was moved forward to 100 seconds before midnight.[5] The clock's setting was left unchanged in both 2021 and 2022. In January 2023, it was moved forward to 90 seconds before midnight.[6] Since 2010, the clock has been moved forward four minutes and thirty seconds and has changed by five minutes and thirty seconds since 1947.
History
The Doomsday Clock's origin can be traced to the international group of researchers called the Chicago Atomic Scientists, who had participated in the Manhattan Project.[7] After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they began publishing a mimeographed newsletter and then the magazine, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which, since its inception, has depicted the Clock on every cover. The Clock was first represented in 1947, when the Bulletin co-founder Hyman Goldsmith asked artist Martyl Langsdorf (wife of Manhattan Project research associate and Szilárd petition signatory Alexander Langsdorf, Jr.) to design a cover for the magazine's June 1947 issue. As Eugene Rabinowitch, another co-founder of the Bulletin, explained later
Fluctuations and threats
On January 24, 2018, scientists moved the clock to two minutes to midnight, based on threats greatest in the nuclear realm. The scientists said, of recent moves by North Korea under Kim Jong-un and the administration of Donald Trump in the US: "Hyperbolic rhetoric and provocative actions by both sides have increased the possibility of nuclear war by accident or miscalculation".[18]
The clock was left unchanged in 2019 due to the twin threats of nuclear weapons and climate change, and the problem of those threats being "exacerbated this past year by the increased use of information warfare to undermine democracy around the world, amplifying risk from these and other threats and putting the future of civilization in extraordinary danger."[4]
On January 23, 2020, the Clock was moved to 100 seconds (1 minute 40 seconds) before midnight. The Bulletin's executive chairman, Jerry Brown, said "the dangerous rivalry and hostility among the superpowers increases the likelihood of nuclear blunder... Climate change just compounds the crisis".[5] The "100 seconds to midnight" setting remained unchanged in 2021 and 2022.
On January 24, 2023, the Clock was moved to 90 seconds (1 minute 30 seconds) before midnight, meaning that the Clock's current setting is the closest it has ever been to midnight since its inception in 1947. This adjustment was largely attributed to the risk of nuclear escalation that arose from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Other reasons that were cited included climate change, biological threats such as COVID-19, and risks associated with disinformation and disruptive technologies.[6]
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