Eve of Destruction: Doomsday Clock Hovers at 2 Minutes to 'Midnight'.

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Physicists invented the Doomsday Clock in 1947, as a warning against the dangers of nuclear weapons.
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▼ Humanity might be running out of time to turn away from a path toward our utter annihilation — at least, according to the hypothetical Doomsday Clock.undefined
Today (Jan. 24), experts with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) updated the imaginary timepiece, which measures the proximity of humanity's destruction based on the position of the clock's hands relative to midnight — the hour of the impending apocalypse.
Last year the Doomsday Clock's hands were set at 2 minutes to midnight, the closest it had ever been to "doomsday." And, citing similar risks of humanity's destruction, BAS representatives announced today that the clock will remain at 2 minutes to midnight.
But even though the clock's hands haven't moved, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the relentless progress of climate change — aided by widespread misinformation and fake news — are still a cause for grave concern, BAS representatives declared at a press event held this morning.
"Though unchanged from 2018, this setting should be taken not as a sign of stability but as a stark warning to leaders and citizens around the world," Rachel Bronson, BAS president and CEO, said in a statement.
"The new abnormal"
Twice a year, BAS scientists and policy experts convene to evaluate the year's events on the global stage, to decide which direction the hands of the Doomsday Clock should move (or if they should move at all).

Jerry Brown and Robert Rosner present the 2019 update to the Doomsday Clock.
Credit: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
In 2018, they found that the twin threats of looming nuclear war and a warming world continued to push the planet toward destruction. Together, these threats have shaped a dangerous and unsustainable status quo that BAS experts dubbed "the new abnormal," Bronson told reporters following the announcement.
"The longer world leaders and citizens thoughtlessly inhabit this abnormal reality, the more likely it is that we will experience the unthinkable," former California Gov. Jerry Brown, BAS executive chair, said in the statement.
Rhetoric and posturing between the U.S. and North Korea over nuclear arsenals has eased since 2017, but overall reliance on nuclear weapons has risen around the world, and a "Cold War mindset" threatens to undo decades of work to mitigate the risk of nuclear war, Sharon Squassoni, a member of the BAS Science and Security Board and a professor with the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy at The George Washington University, said at the press event.
What's more, relations between the U.S. and Russia — the countries holding 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons — remain tense, raising the possibility of nuclear conflict, Squassoni added.
"Deeply alarming" (▪ ▪ ▪)

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Another typical hoax like earth getting eliminated as per Nastramus prediction in 1990