Scientists have moved the symbolic Doomsday Clock ahead by 30 seconds, saying the world is even closer to destruction due to world leaders’ poor responses to the possibility of a nuclear war.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists says the clock is at its peak for the first time since 1953, due to a number of dangers such as a potential nuclear breakout from North Korea, US-Russian disputes, and South China Sea tensions.
Another major concern was what the group classified as the demise of democracy under the Trump administration, reduced to ‘name-calling’ that grants the security situation a ‘surrealistic sense of reality’.