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Doomsday Clock Details, Features, History of bulletins of Atomic Scientists
Doomsday Clock representation for world destruction hypothetically Details, Features, History
Doomsday Clock is a symbolic device used to represent the world's destruction hypothetically, emerged as a result of Nuclear weapons and other Global threats like Climate change, Bio-security, Bio-terrorism Cyber threats etc.
In Doomsday Clock, “Doomsday” is a term used for the end of the Earth or end of life (civilizations) on planet Earth.
In Doomsday Clock, “Minutes to Midnight", is the imagery symbolic hour of the apocalypse or world’s end.
Doomsday Clock was created and represented by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS), at the beginning of the Cold War in 1947, with an original set of seven minutes to midnight.
The BAS was founded at the University of Chicago in 1945, by a group of 15 scientists called the Chicago Atomic Scientists, who participated in developing the first nuclear weapon under Manhattan Project of the U.S.
Since 1947, the BAS members after discussing the world’s state, keeps the world update time to time, about the global catastrophic risk.
