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'Doomsday Clock' moves closer to midnight as nuclear threat rises The Doomsday Clock was created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to illustrate how close humanity has come to the end of the world /smart-living/environment/doomsday-clock-moves-closer-to-midnight-as-nuclear-threat-rises-111674621211948.html 111674621211948 storyThe clock moved its time in 2023 to 90 seconds to midnight. (Pexels/Tom Swinnen)Atomic scientists set the "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before on Tuesday, saying threats of nuclear war, disease, and climate volatility have been exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, putting humanity at greater risk of annihilation. The new time reflects a world in which Russia's invasion of Ukraine has revived fears of nuclear war. "Russia's thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict by accident, intention or miscalculation is a terrible risk. The clock had been set to 100 seconds to midnight since 2020, which was already the closest it had ever come to midnight.
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