![]() ![]() It has stayed there for the past three years. The clock's most recent change came in January 2020, one year before Biden was inaugurated-marking the official time at 100 seconds to midnight-the latest in the history of the clock. The original founders of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists included Albert Einstein and other scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project. The organization's director, Rachel Bronson, is not a scientist and previously taught at Northwestern University's business school as an adjunct professor. Both the New York Times and the Washington Post track every single one of its movements and place their coverage in the respective papers' science sections, despite the clock not having any relation to the scientific method whatsoever. In contrast, the clock moved three times toward midnight under former president Donald Trump, with the organization citing his failure to address, in addition to nuclear weapons, climate change and "fake news."Ĭreated in the aftermath of World War II, the "Doomsday Clock" remains a fixation by many journalists over its supposed prediction of when humanity will end. The decision not to change the clock comes after Russian president Vladimir Putin put his nuclear arsenal on "high alert," and NATO mobilized its response force for the first time since its inception. Subsequent questions about the organization's methodology went unanswered. When asked by the Washington Free Beacon whether the clock would move forward after citing criteria the organization used in the past, such as armed conflict involving countries with nuclear weapons, a spokesman referred to a March 7 statement from the group saying the time would remain unchanged.
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