Doomsday Clock and the paradox of nuclear weapons
With more flashpoints around the globe, are we inching ever closer to Armageddon?
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PEOPLE have become blase about the danger of nuclear war simply because the world has avoided it for the past 80 years. But in about three weeks, we will get a reminder of how close mankind really is to Armageddon when the Doomsday Clock is reset.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists does this every year to warn how close mankind is to destroying itself with its own technologies.
The Doomsday Clock was initially meant to track the risk of nuclear war. But in recent times, other threats such as climate change and rogue technologies are also given consideration.
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