The American scientific magazine announced that the time of the "Doomsday Clock", which symbolically indicates the time remaining until the last day of humankind, is the same as the shortest time in the past two years, "1 minute 40 seconds remaining". He warned that the world is in great danger due to nuclear weapons, the new coronavirus, and the threat of climate change.
The American scientific magazine "Brettin of the Atomic Scientists" held an online press conference on the 20th, and so far about the time of the "Doomsday Clock" that symbolically shows the remaining time until the last day of humankind. It was announced that the shortest time was "1 minute 40 seconds left", the same as last year.
The time of the "Doomsday Clock" started from "7 minutes remaining" in 1947, 75 years ago, and returned to "17 minutes remaining" after the end of the Cold War, but it was the shortest for the third consecutive year since the end of the war. I did.
The reasons for this
are that tensions between the United States and Russia and between the United States and China are continuing, and that the modernization of nuclear weapons is proceeding, and that
the danger of nuclear problems is increasing in North Korea and Iran. ..
In addition,
▼ a new mutant virus occurred in developing countries before the vaccine spread to countries around the world for the new coronavirus, and ▼
each country has not achieved the target of countermeasures for climate change.
He strongly warns that the time of the "Doomsday Clock" has become the shortest for the third consecutive year, "the world remains stuck in a very dangerous moment."