Washington, United States.
He apocalypse clock, which symbolizes the emergence of one planetary disaster, was held at midnight minus 100 seconds by the group of scientists who handles it, who handles the ineffectiveness of governments in management of pandemic and their lack of preparation for it nuclear threats Y climate change.
It is symbolic clock n—It was founded in 1947 by the NGO Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to warn of one nuclear disaster. Last year, hands had progressed 20 seconds and indicated the time closer to midnight in the history of the clock.
“The mortal and terrifying covid-1 pandemic9 serves as a historic wake-up call, a clear example that national governments and international organizations are badly prepared around the weapons threats nuclear and the climate change qwho really could end of civilizationsaid Rachel Bronson, director of the organization.
Each year consists of a group of experts 13 Nobel laureates Highlight the new hour.
“Waking!” asked the heads of state of the great powers, the former governor of California, and president of the NGO, Jerry Brown.
“United States, Russia and the nuclear powers the world should stop yelling at each other. It’s time up eliminate nuclear weapons, not to build anymore. The same goes for the climate change: United States, China and other major countries need to take this seriously deadly carbon emissions“argument.
Made after the WWII, he apocalypse clock originally aimed at seven minutes for the midnight.
In 1991, at the end of the Cold War, dropped to 17 minutes earlier midnight. In 1953, as in 2018 and 2019, it was midnight minus two minutes.