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A friend writes about the Doomsday Clock, which is maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, an old-time lefty group: The Doomsday clock website seems torn on how to factor in what’s going on in Ukraine without making Joe Biden look bad. And while the new US administration made progress in reestablishing the role of science and evidence in public policy, corruption of the information ecosystem continued apace in

Every year since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — founded by Albert Einstein and scientists from the Manhattan Project who helped the US develop the atomic weapons used over Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki — has set the Doomsday Clock. The clock uses “the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero)” to indicate humanity’s vulnerability to human-made disasters. In January, the bulletin’s Science and Security Board...

New conflict-prevention and resolution mechanisms are needed to advocate for mutual assured survival instead of mutual assured destruction

After years of geopolitical rifts, civil wars, and human catastrophes, we appear to have arrived at a point where leaders can brandish the nuclear threat in the most...

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The Bulletin Science and Security Board condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has brought a nightmare scenario to life, with Russian President Vladimir Putin threatening a first use of nuclear weapons if NATO steps in to help Ukraine. This is what 100 seconds to midnight on the Doomsday Clock looks like.

The chances of a nuclear attack by Russia are currently quite low, but there is ongoing worry around the possibility of a nuclear accident, defence policy experts and nuclear scientists say.

Many Ukrainians are lamenting that if they had not given up nuclear weapons they inherited, they would not be facing such a situation