The clock of the day was set 89 seconds before midnight on Tuesday morning, and it is closer to the fact that in the world, if you believe that scientists are a “global catastrophe”.
The international symbol of the decades, described by a non -profit university in Chicago, a bulletin of nuclear scientists as a metaphor, which shows how close the planet is to reach “human extinction” every year. In January 2024, the clock was installed 90 seconds before midnight, just like in 2023. This is the first time the clock has moved forward from 2023.
Nuclear scientists monitor man-made threats and focused on three major core risk, climate change and devastating technology-to determine the location of the clock. The clock position this year was established on the basis of “threatening nuclear weapons, climatic crisis, biological threats and devastating technologies such as artificial intelligence,” the newsletter said in a press release.
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“We set the clock closer to midnight because we do not see sufficient positive progress in the global problems we face, including nuclear risk, climate change, biological threats and successes in devastating technology,” said Daniel Holz, Chairman And the science of the ballot and the security council that sets the clock in a press conference on Thursday.
Special invited Juan Manuel Santos, the former president of Colombia and the Nobel Peace Prize winner, emphasized that the move forward can be stopped, but only if the world leaders worked together. He emphasized the promise of President Trump to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and the World Health Organization as steps in the wrong direction.
“We can only succeed if we act as one,” Santos said.
Other board members have pointed to the growth of nuclear capabilities, proposals for the integration of artificial intelligence into military functions and misinformation on the Internet as major man -made threats.
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“The 2025 time signals that the world is in the course of unprecedented risk, and that continuation on the current path is a form of madness,” the newsletter said. “The United States, China and Russia have a major responsibility to divert the world from the border. The world depends on immediate action.”
The Nuclear Scientists Bulletin was founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Scientists of the University of Chicago, who helped to develop the first nuclear weapons in the Manhattan project. Two years later, the newsletter created the trial hours to convey man -made threats to human existence and the planet. The clock became a generally recognized indicator of the vulnerability of the world before the global catastrophe.
The Council for Science and Security, consisting of scientists, experts on nuclear technologies and climatic sciences, as well as members of the organization's sponsorship council, occurs twice a year to “discuss world events and drop hours as needed” “” “” According to his site.
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The court clock was created in 1947, according to the newsletter website, scientists who worked on Project on Manhattan. Then, allegedly, the rise of nuclear weapons technology is the biggest threat in the world, with early versions of the clock warning about the risk of weapons between the US and the Soviet Union. Since 2007, climate change causes great concern determines the location of the clock.
Initially, the clock was installed seven minutes before the north and has since moved 25 times. It can move back and forth, from the north movement showing that people can make positive changes. The hands were the farthest from the north in 1991, after the Cold War, reports the newsletter.