Newsweek
By Nick Mordowanec
November 9, 2023
A Russian physicist has proposed moving the Doomsday Clock away from midnight, citing the global community’s forceful reaction in opposition to Russian nuclear threats following its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Moscow-trained physicist Pavel Podvig, who in 1995 headed the Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces Research Project, wrote Thursday for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that the symbolic clock that measures cataclysmic fears and cautions of worldwide demise should be dialed down to reflect the strong global response to Russian rhetoric.