"It is six minutes to midnight,” explained a recent statement from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, creators of the Doomsday Clock. The Clock, created in 1947, moved back one minute from five minutes to six minutes before midnight on January 14, 2010.
The decision to adjust the Doomsday Clock was made by the BAS Science and Security Board, in consultation with the Bulletin's Board of Sponsors that includes 19 Nobel Laureates. In addition to the effort to reduce nuclear weapons, the BAS also believes world leaders are making efforts to address life-threatening global climate change.
“For the first time ever, industrialized and developing countries alike are pledging to limit climate-changing gas emissions that could render our planet nearly uninhabitable. These unprecedented steps are signs of a growing political will to tackle the two gravest threats to civilization—the terror of nuclear weapons and runaway climate change,” explained the statement by the panel of international scientists.
Created in 1947, the Doomsday Clock has been adjusted only 18 times prior to today, most recently in January 2007 and in February 2002 after 9/11. The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world's vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and emerging technologies in the life sciences.
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