The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has decided to keep the symbolic ‘Doomsday Clock’ set at just 90 seconds to midnight – the theoretical point of annihilation.
The trends continue to point toward catastrophe, including the fact that China, Russia and the United States all are spending large amounts of money to expand or modernise their nuclear arsenals, boosting the risk of nuclear war through mistake or miscalculation.
Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, set to reach its second anniversary next month, has escalated tensions with the West to their most dangerous levels since the Cold War.
The Nuclear-armed war in Gaza and worsening climate change are cited as factors driving the risk of global catastrophe.
