The Doomsday Clock, a metaphorical warning system for world-ending threats, has been moved to three minutes to midnight.
io9 reports that The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which administers the clock, cited global warming and nuclear proliferation as its reasoning behind the move. It has been at five minutes to midnight since 2012, when it was moved up from six due to concerns about nuclear safety. The closer to midnight, the closer we're said to be to a global catastrophe.
This makes the current position tied for the second-closest it's ever been, says io9. It has been at three minutes in 1984 during the Cold War, and in 1949 when the Soviet Union tested its own atomic bomb. It has only been closer to midnight once, in 1953, when both the United States and Soviet Union were testing thermonuclear weapons.
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