Atomic scientists: We’re still dangerously close to the apocalypse

Atomic scientists: We're still dangerously close to the apocalypse

Each year since 1945, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sends a letter to the UN Security Council in which they tell them how close we are from nuclear holocaust using a Doomsday Clock. In 1960 we were two minutes from midnight. Their new 2014 report says we’re still five minutes from the Apocalypse. "Five minutes is too close," they say.

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