"Doomsday Clock" Now 2 Minutes To Midnight

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In an op-ed for the Washington Post Thursday, Lawrence Krauss, chair of the Bulletin and director of the Origins Project, argued that global threats have now risen to levels not seen since the height of the Cold War.

“The Science and Security Board for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists assesses that the world is not only more dangerous now than it was a year ago; it is as threatening as it has been since World War II,” Krauss writes. “In fact, the Doomsday Clock is as close to midnight today as it was in 1953, when Cold War fears perhaps reached their highest levels.”

Reasons cited include escalating tensions over North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons programs as well as an absence in arms control negotiations between the U.S. and Russia.

“We believe that the perilous world security situation described here would, in itself, justify moving the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight,” Krauss adds.

The clock’s advance follows reports over the past several months of a potential U.S. “bloody-nose” strike against targets in North Korea. Experts warn that such an attack could quickly spiral into a nuclear exchange.

The clock similarly moved forward 30 seconds last year from two and a half minutes to midnight.