US nuclear scientists on January 23 continued to set the “Doomsday Clock” at just 90 seconds before midnight, unchanged from last year .
The doomsday clock is the closest it has ever been to midnight in the context of the war between Russia – Ukraine Israel – Hamas showing no signs of cooling down and climate change occurring. becomes increasingly complicated. These are factors that risk leading to global disaster.
The “Doomsday Clock” is a symbolic tool created by a group of American nuclear scientists including more than 10 Nobel Prize winners built to warn when humanity is close to the planet’s destruction mark (midnight mark).
Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) magazine of the University of Chicago in the US told Reuters: “Conflict hot spots across world brings escalating nuclear threat climate change has caused death and destruction and disruptive technologies like AI and biological research are advancing faster than their own threat protections.”
Just because the clock hasn’t moved any further this year doesn’t mean threats The threat has been stabilized, he warns.
BAS created the watch in 1947 during the height of the Cold War to warn humanity about the risk of a disaster that could destroy the developing world. approaching.
BAS said the world is still witnessing worrying trends including China Russia and the US are both spending large sums of money to expand or modernize their arsenals Their nuclear power increases the risk of nuclear war due to miscalculation.
The Russia-Ukraine war has increased tensions between Moscow and the West to the most dangerous level since the War. Cold.
In addition, BAS also warns of the risk of war in Gaza going out of control when Israel is believed to be a nuclear-armed country.
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