Doomsday Clock A Minute Closer To Midnight.The clock was moved to five minutes to midnight, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, he said, the first adjustment since the beginning of 2010 when he moved back five fifty-nine midnight - or "doomsday ".
"Two years ago, it seemed that world leaders could face a truly global threats we face. In many cases, this trend has not continued or reversed," the group said in a statement.
The Bulletin (www.thebulletin.org) is a magazine founded in 1945 by scientists at the University of Chicago who had helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project.
They created the Doomsday Clock two years later as a symbol of how close humanity was self-annihilation, with an initial setting of seven minutes to midnight.
Initially, the clock is focused on nuclear war, but has expanded in recent years scientists, including a number of Nobel laureates, said other threats to humanity.
The scientists said world leaders failed to sustain progress in nuclear disarmament had been moving his hands on the clock back two years ago.
Moreover, the main challenge now is to a warmer climate that threatens to cause droughts, famines, water shortages and rising seas, said Allison Macfarlane, an associate professor at George Mason University near Washington, who chairs the committee group that helps set the clock.
"The international community may be close to a tipping point in efforts to prevent catastrophic changes in Earth's atmosphere," Macfarlane said in a statement.
The last time the group moved their hands around midnight was in 2007, for two minutes due to a North Korean test nuclear weapons, Iran's nuclear ambitions and a renewed emphasis USA at the time of the military utility of nuclear weapons.
The closest I ever came to watch the midnight was 1953, the first test of a hydrogen bomb in the United States.
"Two years ago, it seemed that world leaders could face a truly global threats we face. In many cases, this trend has not continued or reversed," the group said in a statement.
The Bulletin (www.thebulletin.org) is a magazine founded in 1945 by scientists at the University of Chicago who had helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project.
They created the Doomsday Clock two years later as a symbol of how close humanity was self-annihilation, with an initial setting of seven minutes to midnight.
Initially, the clock is focused on nuclear war, but has expanded in recent years scientists, including a number of Nobel laureates, said other threats to humanity.
The scientists said world leaders failed to sustain progress in nuclear disarmament had been moving his hands on the clock back two years ago.
Moreover, the main challenge now is to a warmer climate that threatens to cause droughts, famines, water shortages and rising seas, said Allison Macfarlane, an associate professor at George Mason University near Washington, who chairs the committee group that helps set the clock.
"The international community may be close to a tipping point in efforts to prevent catastrophic changes in Earth's atmosphere," Macfarlane said in a statement.
The last time the group moved their hands around midnight was in 2007, for two minutes due to a North Korean test nuclear weapons, Iran's nuclear ambitions and a renewed emphasis USA at the time of the military utility of nuclear weapons.
The closest I ever came to watch the midnight was 1953, the first test of a hydrogen bomb in the United States.
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