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Every year since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists founded by Albert Einstein and scientists from the Manhattan Project who helped the US develop the atomic weapons used over Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki has set the Doomsday Clock.
The clock uses “the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero)” to indicate humanity’s vulnerability to human-made disasters. In January, the bulletin’s Science and Security Board set the clock for the third consecutive year at 100 seconds to midnight, marking the closest humanity has come to extinction in the past 75 years.