USA Today
By Doyle Rice
January 13, 2024
It’s almost that time again: Time for the annual update of the Doomsday Clock, the symbol of how close the world is to civilization-ending catastrophe.
First set in 1947, the Doomsday Clock warns humanity about how close – or far – we are to destroying our world with our own dangerous technologies. “It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet,” according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which sets the symbolic time each January.
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