You can watch the event live on their website.
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The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists will hold a virtual event announcing the new time of the Doomsday clock at 10am (EST). Tory hopefuls refuse to say if they would halt new UK coal mine amid pressure for climate actio 17 July, 2022 UK voters about to suffer the hottest day ever could punish Tory hopefuls for climate blindspot 17 July, 2022 Britain's 40☌ future and why our homes, trains and schools aren't prepared 15 July, 2022 When is the new Doomsday Clock time announced? The Chicago-based scientists also release a report, detailing the threat to the planet, alongside the announcement.
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The Bulletin focus on three main things: nuclear risk, climate change and disruptive technologies. “We stimulate a worldwide conversation in which people ask themselves and one another whether the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board got the time right.” “While the time we set on the Doomsday clock is in and of itself important, the conversation that it generates is truly impressive,” she said. Rachel Bronson, President and CEO of the Bulletin, believes the clock is vital to raise awareness of the man-made global threats. He moved the minute hand to three minutes to midnight in 1949.
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US scientists involved in the Manhattan Project and the first nuclear weapons founded the clock to represent the dangers to the planet.Īccording to Eugene Rabinowitch, the first editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the clock was an image used to “frighten men into rationality”. Every year the Doomsday Clock moves closer to or further away from midnight (Photo: South China Morning Post/Getty Images) What is the Doomsday Clock?