Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight, but can we really predict the end of the world?
Friday, January 23, 2015 - 08:30
in Biology & Nature
The second hand of the Doomsday Clock is now only three minutes to midnight. This is the closest to apocalypse we have come since 1984 – the coldest of Cold War years, just a year after Able Archer, the Petrov incident and Reagan's "evil empire" speech.