The Doomsday Clock Moves 90 Seconds to Midnight
- Istimewa
VoxPop – The doomsday clock has moved to its closest point to midnight, breaking records compared to the previous years. As the clock gets closer to midnight, experts from the Science and Security Board (SSB) believe that the world is coming to an end.
SSB has moved the Doomsday Clock hand 90 seconds closer to midnight. The Russia-Ukraine war and worsening climate disasters have alarmed scientists, who make annual predictions faster and faster by moving the clock hands every January.
The clock was created back in 1947 to warn humanity of the dangers of nuclear weapons. Still used today, scientists encompass all kinds of threats they believe are posing a risk to human existence. The panel is made up of experts in the fields of nuclear risk, climate change, disruptive technologies, and bioterrorism.
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- U-Report
The SSB meets twice a year to discuss current threats and whether a clock reset is necessary. On January 23, 2020, scientists decided to move the clocks back 100 seconds to midnight amid two concurrent existential dangers of nuclear war and climate change.
Russia's illegal war in Ukraine has led President Vladimir Putin to make dire nuclear threats. According to the International Campaign to Abolish nuclear weapons (ICAN), this year's Doomsday Clock announcement is an indication that urgent action must be taken to avoid a nuclear holocaust.
It calls on the world's nuclear powers to begin eliminating their arsenals. It comes months before G7 leaders are scheduled to meet in the city of Hiroshima in May 2023.
Chosen deliberately by Japanese Prime Minister Kishida, this was the first city to experience a nuclear attack to put international peace and security at the center of its agenda.
The group has laid out a roadmap to push the globe on a path to being free from nuclear weapons. It started with the Treaty on the Prohibition of nuclear weapons two years ago, which 92 countries signed and 68 ratified, in a huge show of force against the existence of these lethal bombs.
