Dooms day clock moved closer to midnight.

[Greg Dent]

If you’re one of those who has been thinking we’re doomed lately, you might be onto something.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on Thursday said the global security landscape has darkened and turned the hands of the Doomsday Clock to two-and-a-half minutes to midnight. That’s a half-minute closer to catastrophe than last year and the closest it has been to “doomsday” in 64 years during the Cold War.

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“In addition to the existential threats posed by nuclear weapons and climate change, new global realities emerged,” executive director and publisher Rachel Bronson says in a statement accompanying the bulletin’s annual announcement. “Trusted sources of information came under attack, fake news was on the rise, and words were used in cavalier and often reckless ways. As if to prove that words matter and fake news is dangerous, Pakistan’s foreign minister issued a blustery statement, a tweet actually, flexing Pakistan’s nuclear muscle — in response to a fabricated ‘news’ story about Israel.”

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Edited January 30, 2017 by Greg Dent

[Greg Dent]

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