The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is set to make a “major announcement” about the Doomsday Clock later today, with speculation mounting that the minute hand could edge closer to midnight.
A press conference at 11am EST will feature discussions about climate change, nuclear modernization and the threat of terrorism in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
Any movement of the minute hand would mark the first change in three years. The last adjustment came in 2012 on the back of concerns about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
The clock currently stands at five minutes to midnight. The closest it has ever been to ‘doomsday’ is two minutes to midnight, which occurred in 1953 following the United States and the Soviet Union testing thermonuclear devices within nine months of each other.
If the clock moves one minute closer to midnight, it will be the closest the world has been to catastrophe since 1984.
by Paul Joseph Watson | January 22, 2015
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