The symbolic clock's measurement was placed at the same point it has been since 2020, the closest it has ever been to midnight.
The members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Thursday they had decided to leave the symbolic Doomsday Clock at the same place it sat last year and the year before: 100 seconds to midnight, the closest measure ever for the clock.
Dr. Rachel Bronson, President and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, opened the webinar announcing the Doomsday Clock's measurement. She said the nonprofit organization has been calculating the Doomsday Clock for 75 years to represent"the judgment of leading science and security experts about the threat to human existence with a focus on manmade threats, nuclear risk, climate change, and new disruptive technologies.
This image shows a visual representation of the symbolic Doomsday Clock, which experts decided to leave in the same place it was at last year: 100 seconds to midnight. This remains the closest measurement to midnight that the Doomsday Clock has displayed to date.The Bulletin created the clock in 1947, two years after the organization was established by University of Chicago scientists who helped create the first nuclear weapons in the Manhattan Project.
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