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re: Doomsday Clock 2024: Awful News For Humanity....
Doomsday Clock 2024: Awful News For Humanity - Hands Stay at 90 Seconds to Midnight
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 23 JAN 20244
The Doomsday Clock has been updated for 2024 - and it's not good news for the fate of humanity.
Last years' unveiling saw the symbolic clock tick closer to midnight after remaining unchanged for the previous three years. The hands were reset to just 90 seconds to 12 "largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine".
Before then the world had consistently been 100 seconds away from "midnight” — the hour of apocalypse — since 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. Further destabilising events have rocked the world since then, from Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the ongoing war in Gaza.
Now the clock has been updated in a Tuesday morning ceremony at the Keller Centre at the University of Chicago. It now reads 90 SECONDS to midnight.
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