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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 for more tech news visit cnet-dot-com-slash-loaded