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"Doomsday Clock"
The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face, representing a countdown to possible political related global catastrophe (nuclear war or climate change). It has been maintained since 1947 by the members of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, who are in turn advised by the Governing Board and the Board of Sponsors, including 18 Nobel Laureates. The closer they set the Clock to midnight, the closer the scientists believe the world is to global disaster.
Originally, the Clock, which hangs on a wall in a Bulletin's office in the University of Chicago, represented an analogy for the threat of global nuclear war; however, since 2007 it has also reflected climate change and new developments in the life sciences and technology that could inflict irrevocable harm to humanity. The most recent officially announced setting—three minutes to midnight (11:57 pm)—was made on January 22, 2015.
^ The Doomsday Clock doesn't do much except give some scientists something to do other than real research. In all the resources I have looked at regarding the Clock (which of course isn't a real clock) they all leave out the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 when the whole world came the closest to a nuclear holocaust - ie Doomsday - and yet it isn't mentioned other than to say the events in Cuba happened too quickly to "reset" the Clock - I guess 13 days is too long. ^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock
"Doomsday Clock"
The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face, representing a countdown to possible political related global catastrophe (nuclear war or climate change). It has been maintained since 1947 by the members of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, who are in turn advised by the Governing Board and the Board of Sponsors, including 18 Nobel Laureates. The closer they set the Clock to midnight, the closer the scientists believe the world is to global disaster.
Originally, the Clock, which hangs on a wall in a Bulletin's office in the University of Chicago, represented an analogy for the threat of global nuclear war; however, since 2007 it has also reflected climate change and new developments in the life sciences and technology that could inflict irrevocable harm to humanity. The most recent officially announced setting—three minutes to midnight (11:57 pm)—was made on January 22, 2015.
^ The Doomsday Clock doesn't do much except give some scientists something to do other than real research. In all the resources I have looked at regarding the Clock (which of course isn't a real clock) they all leave out the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 when the whole world came the closest to a nuclear holocaust - ie Doomsday - and yet it isn't mentioned other than to say the events in Cuba happened too quickly to "reset" the Clock - I guess 13 days is too long. ^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock
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