LONDON — The world has nudged closer to a nuclear apocalypse and
environmental disaster, a trans-Atlantic group of prominent scientists
warned Wednesday, pushing the hand of its symbolic Doomsday Clock two
minutes closer to midnight.

It was the fourth time since the end of the Cold War that the clock has
ticked forward, this time from 11:53 to 11:55, amid fears over what the
scientists are describing as ‘’a second nuclear age'’ prompted largely
by atomic standoffs with Iran and North Korea.

But the organization added that the ‘’dangers posed by climate change are nearly as dire as those posed by nuclear weapons.'’

The Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945
as a newsletter for nuclear physicists concerned by the possibility of
nuclear war.

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