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The clock which can predict doomsday

The clock which can predict doomsday| TheNewsTribe.com

CHICAGO- There is a clock which is hanging on the wall of University of Chicago which tells when the world is standing at the rim of destruction and is named as the doomsday clock.

This ominous dial is adjusted by a board of scientists which are advised and sponsored by various government officials and some organizations.

It was designed in the wake of 1945 bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A group of scientists including many who had been involved in the Manhattan Project started a regular Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.

Since then, their Science and Security Board meets twice a year, along with political scientists and diplomats, to discuss global threats.

Climate change was added to the clock later.

The clock was started with a reading of seven minutes to midnight.

n the 68 years since, the hands have moved backwards and forwards about 20 times. The worst it got was in 1953, after the US and Soviet hydrogen bomb tests, when the clock put the world at two minutes to doom.

Nevertheless, it is not always accurate, because the annually-set clock doesn’t capture events resolved in the interim. The Cuban missile crisis, for instance, left the clock entirely unmoved. The Doomsday Clock board could also use some diversity to reflect perceptions from the non-Western world.

It was moved to 11:57 recently. This January, the mortal threat of “unchecked climate change” placed it at 11.57. The question is, will the Paris summit take us closer to midnight?

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