Doomsday clock - 100 seconds to midnight

   The world is just 100 seconds away from major catastrophe arising from climate change and nuclear weapons. The Doomsday Clock has been setup to 11:58:40 p.m. which is a 'historic wake up call' to all the global leaders and citizens of the world.

    The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 by the board of the magazine The bulletin of atomic scientists. The bulletin was founded by scientists in 1945 who created the atomic bombs. shocked by the devastation caused by the Hiroshima bomb, the scientists wanted to raise awareness about the dangers of nuclear technology.

     The clock is symbolic indicator that warns the public how close the world is to a potentially civilization ending catastrophe. Each year magazine's board analyses the threat to humanity's survival to decide where the Doomsday Clock's hand should be set. The closer the Clock is to midnight,the closer we are to global calamity. 

 

    In 1947, Clock was set to 11:53 p.m. Since then the Clock was moved forward and backward depending on the state of the nuclear threat. When US and erstwhile USSR conducted their first nuclear tests of the hydrogen bomb, the hands were moved to 11:58 p.m. In 1991, when the world's superpowers signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, The Clock was set to 11:43 p.m.

    Now, the Clock has  become a universally recognized indicator of the world's vulnerability to catastrophe from climate change,nuclear weapons and new technologies emerging in other domains.

     In January 2015, the Board set the Doomsday Clock to 11:57 p.m. and said:     

    Unchecked climate change,Global nuclear weapons modernization and outsizes nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continues existence of humanity and world leaders have failed to act with speed or on the scale required to protect the citizens from potential catastrophe.These failures of political leadership endanger every person on earth.