Scientists reveal today in a press conference how close humans are to the "Doomsday"!
Today, Thursday, scientists are expected to reveal how close they think the Earth is to the end of the world.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will host a live virtual press conference at 15 GMT today to announce the timing of the "Doomsday Clock" on the 75th anniversary of the iconic clock's launch.
Doomsday Clock is an annual review that reveals exactly how close our species is to extinction.
On October 24, 1962, an American nuclear chemist, Harrison Brown, began writing an editorial in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, when the Cuban Missile Crisis reached its climax.
"I am writing on a plane from Los Angeles to Washington, and although I know this editorial ... may never be published, never before in history have people and nations come close to death and destruction on such a large scale," Brown said.
With this dire warning, he was referring to the "Doomsday Clock", which has been the pioneering idea of the bulletin since it was founded 75 years ago by Albert Einstein and some University of Chicago scientists from the Manhattan Project.
Their work contributed to the creation of the atomic bomb, but many were outraged when the United States used it against Japanese cities.
The image of the clock ticking until midnight was intended to convey the sense of urgency that Brown felt so strongly on that trip to Washington in 1962.
"He thought the world could end while he was on that flight," said Rachel Bronson, current head of the publication.
According to “Russia Today” and “The Guardian”, today the “Doomsday Clock” will be revealed for the seventy-fifth time, and we will discover how the Bulletin Committee of scientists and experts will move the hands of the minutes.
Join us for the 75th anniversary Doomsday Clock announcement on Thursday, Jan.
20 at 10:00 am EST
Details: https://t.co/UgE8wtUvND pic.twitter.com/RyWu91AnfP
— Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (@BulletinAtomic) January 9, 2022
For the past two years, the clock has been stuck at 100 seconds before midnight.
The year 1953 marked the worst time, reaching 23:57 for the first time, as that year was one of the dangerous years due to the Cold War.
The time after midnight occurred, when the clock moved to 17 minutes before midnight, during the end of the Cold War.
The timing has since fallen back toward extinction, due in part to the increasing volatility of geopolitics, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the new existential threat of climate change, which officially became a factor in the calculations in 2007.
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