Tick…Tock: Getting Closer To Doomsday
The Doomsday Clock, used to represent the likelihood of a manmade global catastrophe, started ticking at two minutes to midnight in 2018, the closest the world has been to the "hour of apocalypse" since 1953.
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The Doomsday Clock, used to represent the likelihood of a manmade global catastrophe, started ticking at two minutes to midnight in 2018, the closest the world has been to the "hour of apocalypse" since 1953.