prepare your underground bunkers the
hands on the Doomsday Clock have moved
closer to midnight every year an
organization called The Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists sets the clock it's a
graphic that represents the health and
safety of the planet the closer the
hands are to midnight well you get the
idea
scientists decided that events from 2016
pushed humanity closer to catastrophe
and move the hands to two and a half
minutes their previous position was
three minutes blame fell on a range of
threats but a political incident the
result of the u.s. presidential election
was a major contributor the scientists
said that one person's words wouldn't
normally influence the clock but
President Donald Trump's comments on
nuclear weapons and climate change have
quote broken with historical precedent
in unsettling ways in quote let's not
get wound up just yet to put this in
context the closest they've been to the
end of times was two minutes in 1953
that's when the US and Soviet Union were
testing hydrogen bombs when it's time
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