“Doomsday Clock” (Doomsday Clock) is a representative watch that represents the risk of our world to succumb to human -made threats since 1947. Although the destruction of humanity was not a very fun issue, the development of the more powerful atomic weapons between the US and the USSR in those years was worrying for the whole world. The clock has been moving since the opinions and expertise of bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Atomic Scientists).
In 1947, the clock was set to 7 minutes before midnight. When the clock was farthest from midnight, it was 1991 after the signing of the tension between the former Soviet Union and the United States, the reunification of Germany and the signing of the first strategic weapons Reduction Agreement. That year, 17 minutes left midnight.
Bulletin members question the answers to the two basic questions while moving the clock. The clock has been advanced or recovered whether humanity has been safer than the previous year and whether it has been safer against human -made threats for the last 78 years.
Although threats are no longer limited to nuclear weapons, even a small nuclear conflict can kill tens of millions of people in just a few hours. A nuclear war will kill 5 billion people due to a direct impact or follow -up. However, the threats are no longer limited to nuclear weapons. In 2023, the clock was first set to 90 seconds before midnight and has not stopped two more than two minutes away from midnight for the last few years.
Are we as soon as the “apocalypse”?
Now the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced that the Judgment of the Resurrection was taken forward 89 seconds before midnight. This shows the moment when the clock was closest to the “apocalypse ..
Daniel Holz, Chairman of the Science and Security Council of Chicago University Bulletin, said that the detection of the Bulletin Atomic Scientists Bulletin Science and Security Council did not make enough progress on existential risks that threaten all humanity. Therefore, we take the watch forward. ”
From Russia’s occupation of Ukraine to the war in Sudan, the conflict in the Congo and the occupation of Israel’s occupation of Gaza, international conflicts have experienced a major increase in the last decade. In the occupation of Gaza, 64,260 people, including many children, were killed. The daily death rate has exceeded all other conflicts in the 21st century. The ceasefire signed days ago will be the beginning of a longer peace.
In addition, the last few years have been the hottest years and 2024 is currently holding the temperature record. Destructive floods, forest fires and terrible typhoon and hurricanes are also increasing. The climate crisis takes place in front of our eyes, and governments seem to be afraid to take serious and big steps. The United Nations Climate Meeting COP29 has failed most criteria and the Trump administration announced that it will remove the US from the Paris Climate Agreement.
In addition to all these, the wrong information and misinformation spread by the newsletter, politicians, personalities and the media, from the future epidemics and lack of preparation, how the agreement of nuclear weapons reduction agreements stopped in 2026 with a major agreement, the lack of arrangement surrounding cybertechnology Globally, he also talks about the corruption of rights in many countries.
