For the Love of God, Stop Making Inscrutable Doomsday Clocks
A business school is using AI doomerism, money from Saudi Arabia, and a dusty Cold War metaphor to get people hyped about ...
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Can the world avoid a new nuclear arms race?
Leading experts discuss how states are expanding nuclear arsenals amid rising geopolitical challenges.
Opinion: Israel is fighting to beat Iran’s doomsday clock
The war that began in Gaza was never about Gaza alone. Defeating Hamas is the first stage of a regional conflict between ...
I Launched the AI Safety Clock. Here’s What It Tells Us About Existential Risks
The Clock’s current reading—29 minutes to midnight—shows just how close we are to a potential doomsday scenario, writes ...
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Two books explore doomsday scenarios of a nuclear war
the specter of nuclear war looms ever closer. The Doomsday Clock, which is set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board (SASB), now stands at 90 seconds to midnight ...
Opinion: What more do the U.S. and its allies need? It's time to take out Iran's nuclear sites
Iran's belligerence in the Mideast should be a signal to the United States: It cannot be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon.
"Escalation dominance" and the new nuclear threat: We face more than 1,000 Holocausts
Nuclear arsenals are vastly more powerful today than during the Cold War — and the risk of apocalypse keeps growing ...
Nobel prize is a warning to a world on the nuclear brink
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki reflects ...
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Since its inception, what are the farthest and closest the Doomsday Clock has been from midnight? What were the relative global situations?
The farthest the Doomsday Clock has been from midnight was 17 minutes, in 1991. This was during a time of significant reduction in nuclear tensions following the signing of the Strategic Arms ...
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Putin revises his nuclear doctrine, but have his red lines shifted?
Nuclear retaliation ... So does Putin’s statement move the Doomsday Clock any closer to midnight? Wednesday’s announcement sparked robust discussion online, with arms-control experts trying ...