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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Andrew Griffin

REVEALED: What is the doomsday clock and will it edge closer to midnight 7083928b 38a8 4c4a a401 bbe020530e10 | Rare Historical Photos

The clock is ticking: it stands at 100 seconds to midnight, or doomsday. Humanity is already closer to annihilation than ever before.

That’s the time on the Doomsday Clock, the dramatic metaphor established in 1947 by some of the world’s leading scientists to symbolise just how close humanity is to catastrophe.

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