The press conference of the group of experts who update The Doomsday Clock took place on January 24, 2023. Unlike last year, when the seconds that bring us closer to the end of the world had not moved, the Doomsday Clock has gained 10 seconds, so there are only 90 seconds left before the end of time. Humanity has never been so close to midnight, especially because of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, which had not been taken into account last year.
If you think this is a group of crazy lunatics, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has 13 Nobel Prize winners in its ranks. In 2020, Rachel Bronson, President and CEO of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, said that"the time between the world and catastrophe is now expressedin seconds, not hours or minutes". We were then 100 seconds from the end of the world.
At its creation, after the Second World War and despite the dropping of two nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the clock indicated 23:53, midnight being the time of the end of the world (The Doomsday). But if the Doomsday Clock project focused on nuclear power, the development of biological weapons, military technologies and climate change due to human development also come into play.
With the coronavirus health crisis, Iran's nuclear declarations, and the melting ice cap, Rachel Bronson explains that countries have seen a pile of dominoes fall because of their decades-long mismanagement of countries. She castigates governments for being unprepared for the worst dangers facing their citizens and says that"advancing the timetable is a decision our experts do not take lightly" to warn of impending disaster.
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