The good news is that the Doomsday clock does not move

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, guided by concerns about nuclear proliferation, global warming, and cybersecurity, has kept its 72-hour clock timer from 2 am to midnight. The closest humanity is that of Armageddon since 1953, when the United States and the Soviet Union blew up their first hydrogen bombs.

"A new anomalous phenomenon: it is still midnight," says the 2019 communique. "Humanity is now confronted with two simultaneous existential threats, which would cause extreme concern and immediate attention. These major threats – nuclear weapons and climate change – have been exacerbated in the past year by the increased use of the information war to undermine democracy in the world, magnify the risks of these threats and other threats and put the future of civilization at extraordinary risk. "

Scientists and experts who assess global risks and decide what the clock should read have seen heightened threats and The clock has increased by two minutes in 2015, at midnight to three, propelled by "uncontrolled climate change and the modernization of already huge nuclear arsenals." It rose by 30 seconds in 2017, influenced by the statements of the new US President Donald Trump about the use of nuclear weapons – and in 2018, when the Bulletin declared that the security situation in the world was "as dangerous as since the Second World War".

What became known as Doomsday Clock began to exist in 1947, when the editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists rose from a newsletter to a magazine and hired the artist Martyl Langsdorf to create a cover for the raise. The clock has become an icon of the Cold War, putting a number, as impressionistic as it is, on everyone should be paranoid about the end of civilization. The first clock was set at 7:00.

Since the end of the Cold War, the clock has adapted to the threats of the modern world. like climate change, cybersecurity and nuclear proliferation.

In 2019, as destabilizing risks worldwide are not lacking, attempts to evaluate them are not lacking, including the Global Risks Report of the World Economic Forum, global terrorism of Aon. and political risk maps, the Bloomberg News Pessimist Guide for the coming year and Carbon Clock.