It's the End of the World as We Know It

Since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has kept the Doomsday Clock to track how close mankind is to destroying itself. Assessing nuclear arsenals and other risks, it calculates the number of minutes to midnight, with midnight being End Times. On January 26 the Bulleting moved the clock 30...

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Published in:Bloomberg businessweek (Online) 2017-02, p.58
Main Author: Boudway, Ira
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Emergency preparedness
Nuclear weapons
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Summary:Since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has kept the Doomsday Clock to track how close mankind is to destroying itself. Assessing nuclear arsenals and other risks, it calculates the number of minutes to midnight, with midnight being End Times. On January 26 the Bulleting moved the clock 30 seconds forward, to two and a half minutes from the apocalypse -- the closest they've been since 1953, shortly after the US tested its first hydrogen bomb. Nobody likes to contemplate catastrophes, nuclear or not, which is why they're woefully unready for them. A 2016 survey by the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University found that only one-third of American households have an adequate plan for an emergency.
ISSN:0007-7135
2162-657X