Why the Watch of the Last Judgment has approached more than ever at the time of destruction

He Final Judgment Clockwhich symbolizes how close the humanity of destruction is, a second has been advanced until it is 89 seconds of midnight, as close as it has ever been.

The Atomic Scientists Bulletin (BAS), which annually adjusts the clock, affirms that the key factors of this advance are nuclear threats, possible improper uses of advances in biology and artificial intelligence and climate change.

Daniel Holz, president of the BAS Science and Security Council, declared that this advance was “a warning to all world leaders.”

The clock was originally placed seven minutes from midnight in 1947. Last year it remained in 90 seconds.

In Tuesday’s statement, the BAS, a non -profit organization based in Chicago, claimed that “when the clock approached a second to midnight, we send a clear signal.”

“Since the world is already dangerously close to the precipice, A change of even a single second should be taken as an indication of extreme danger and an unequivocal warning that every second delay in investing course increases the probability of a global disaster. ”

“This clock constitutes a crude diagnosis of our reality,” warned the former Colombian and Peace Nobel president Juan Manuel Santos.

Santos, chaired by The Elders organization (the elderly), founded by Nelson Mandela, participated in the presentation of the clock.

“The only effective response is for nations to work together, so it is so alarming that President Trump has expressed his intention to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement”Santos said in reference to the international treaty that seeks to limit global warming.

The Colombian also regretted Trump’s “harmful” decision to get the US from the World Health Organization (WHO), since “he will have huge ramifications for world health security.”

The bulletin of atomic scientists warned that the war in Ukraine – which is close to its third year from the Russian invasion – “could become nuclear at any time by a precipitous decision, an accident or an error of calculation.”

“The conflict in the Middle East threat with uncontrolled and leads to a broader war without prior notice.”

The group of scientists also stated that “the long -term forecast for attempts in the world of dealing with climate change remains bad, since most governments fail to promulgate the necessary financial and political initiatives to stop global warming” .

In the biological field, BAS continued, “emerging and reemerging diseases continue to threaten the economy, society and security of the world.”

He also warned that “a variety of other disruptive technologies advanced last year so that they make the world more dangerous.”

“In Ukraine and the Middle East, systems that incorporate artificial intelligence to military objectives have been usedand several countries are advancing in the integration of artificial intelligence into their armies. ”

The organization stressed that all these dangers “are largely exacerbated by a powerful threat multiplier: the propagation of erroneous information, misinformation and conspiracy theories that degrade the communication ecosystem and increasingly blur the line that separates the truth from falsehood. “

According to the BAS, the United States, China and Russia “have the collective power of destroying civilization”, and added that the three nations “have the primary responsibility of getting the world out of the abyss.”

“We are still in time to make the right decisions to go back the clock hands of the final judgment,” Holy was pressing. “In Colombia we say ‘every second account'”.

In 2020, the clock hands moved 100 seconds from midnight. The following years, in 2021 and 2022, the needles stayed in the same place, But in 2023 they advanced up to 90 seconds, where they remained in 2024.

In 1991, with the end of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union signed the strategic weapons reduction treaty (START), the first treaty that foresaw deep cuts in the arsenals of strategic nuclear weapons of Both countries, which led the newsletter to delay the clock needle 17 minutes before midnight.

That was the time the disaster clock hands have been further.