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The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than ever before, in what appears to be an ominous warning about the state of our world. Released every year by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, this ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor, not a mechanical forecast, but it is built on concrete assessments of global risk. Created in the late 1940s by scientists who had worked on nuclear weapons, it was ...