The symbolic doomsday Clock, created in 1947, and shows the extent of the global threat of nuclear war and climate change, and now shows the new time. Their arrows frozen in «two minutes to midnight» where midnight is nuclear war. About it reported in a press release, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. To assess the degree of threat to the world is produced by American scientists each year.
Watches have become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to the catastrophic use of nuclear weapons, climate change and new technologies emerging in other areas.
The previous time, which stayed clock — 23:57:30. This means that over the year the world began 30 seconds closer to the disastrous finale.
Scientists so justify the decision: «In 2017, global leaders are unable to respond effectively to the looming threat of nuclear war and climate change, what made the situation with the world’s safety is more dangerous than a year ago, and as dangerous, as after the Second world war.
The greatest risks in the past year have arisen in the nuclear field. Nuclear program of North Korea has made significant progress in 2017, increasing risks to the North Korea, other countries in the region and the United States. Hyperbolic rhetoric and provocative actions of both sides increased the probability of a nuclear war, sudden or planned.»
However, the reason the clock was not the only nuclear program of the DPRK.
«Beyond the nuclear and climate sector, technological changes are destroying the democratic countries around the world as States look for and use the potential of information technology as weapons, including by conducting a fraudulent Internet campaigns aimed at undermining the election and public confidence in the institutions necessary for free thinking and global security».
The last time the doomsday Clock showed «two minutes to midnight» during the Cold war in 1953.
