“This was before the recent military actions by the U.S. “I have to admit, at first we set the clock in November,” Sharon Squassoni- a member of the Bulletin and a professor at the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy at George Washington University-said during the press conference announcing the Doomsday Clock’s time. As these treaties fail, both sides are developing new types of nuclear weapons aimed at circumventing existing defense systems. Russia has said it wants to renew the treaty, but America is dragging its heels and indicating it may let the treaty lapse. and Russia can deploy, will expire in February unless it's renewed.
New START, an Obama-era treaty limiting the number of missiles the U.S. In the weeks after leaving the treaty, both Russia and the U.S. pulled out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2019, a Cold-War era pact that prohibited cruise missiles and land-based ballistic missiles with ranges between 311 and 3,420 miles. It’s meant as a warning.Īt 100 seconds to midnight, the Bulletin is saying it believes Earth is closer to global disaster than at any other time in its history. Every year since the clocks inception in 1947, a group of scientists and experts gather to discuss the possibility of the end of the world and adjust the clock accordingly.
According to the Bulletin, the Doomsday Clock is a visual representation of how close humanity is to ending itself.
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