Has humanity come even closer to the risk of a planetary cataclysm?

We should know this Tuesday, when a group of experts must unveil the new time of the doomsday clock.

This is supposed to measure the imminence of this phenomenon, based in particular on global conflicts, global warming or pandemics.


The Doomsday Clock has been a powerful symbol for communicating existential threats for over 75 years.



Tune in January 24 at 10:00AM EST to hear what leading scientists have set the Doomsday Clock to for 2023.



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The American NGO Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in charge of this symbolic clock, will announce between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. how many seconds separate the planet from the fateful midnight gong.

"We are stuck in a perilous moment, which brings neither stability nor security," said Sharon Squassoni, one of the leaders of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, recalls TF1 Info.

"The doomsday clock continues to hover above our heads, reminding us of the work needed to ensure a safer and healthier planet."

Stuck at 100 seconds from midnight, a record

Founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein and scientists who worked on the "Manhattan" project, which produced the first atomic bomb, this group of experts sets the new time each year.

Originally, after the Second World War, the clock showed midnight minus 7. In 1991, at the end of the Cold War, it had moved back to 17 minutes before midnight.

In 1953, as well as in 2018 and 2019, it displayed midnight minus 2.



For the past two years, it has been stuck at 100 seconds from midnight, a record.

For this year 2023, the climate crisis, the war in Ukraine and the risks posed by nuclear proliferation will, among other things, be taken into account in the calculation.

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