The last movement was in 2020, when the minute hand was moved from two minutes to midnight to 100 seconds from midnight because of an “unprecedentedly high risk” of a nuclear exchange. BAS has reset the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock 24 times since its debut in 1947. According to the organisation’s website, the clock uses the “imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero) to convey threats to humanity”.Įvery year, BAS’s Science and Security Board, in consultation with its board of sponsors that includes 11 Nobel laureates, makes the decision to move, or to leave in place, the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock. The doorstep of doom is no place to loiter.”īAS was founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J Robert Oppenheimer, Eugene Rabinowitch and scientists from the University of Chicago who helped develop the first atomic weapons, and the organisation created the Doomsday Clock two years later. It added: “Citizens of the world can and should organise to demand that their leaders do so – and quickly.
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NEW DELHI: The influential Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) on Thursday retained its “Doomsday Clock” at 100 seconds to midnight, pointing to the continuing and dangerous threats posed by nuclear weapons, climate change, disruptive technologies and Covid-19.īAS said leaders across the world “must immediately commit themselves to renewed cooperation in the many ways and venues available for reducing existential risk”.