2023 'Doomsday Clock' announcement: What to know and expect
Scientists will reveal on Tuesday how close humanity is to armageddon with its latest edition of the "Doomsday Clock." Scientists will reveal on Tuesday how close humanity is to armageddon with its latest edition of the "Doomsday Clock." For the past 75 years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a nonprofit media organization comprised of world leaders and Nobel laureates, has announced how close it believes the world is to collapse due to nuclear war, climate change and, most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic. "It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet," the Bulletin, which created the clock, said on its website, also calling it "a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making." Tuesday's announcement will be the first since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which could move the clock closer to "doomsday....