Appeal to all sides to drop the rhetoric
The Doomsday Clock is still set at three minutes to midnight,the closest it has come to the world’s destruction since the iciest days of the cold war, despite the nuclear deal with Iran and the Paris deal over climate change.
North Korea, and whose launch of a long-range rocket on Sunday followed close on a nuclear test which it claimed gave it the capability to “wipe out the whole territory of the US all at once”,was a factor in the decision by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists final month to maintain the symbolic countdown to three minutes to apocalypse.
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Source: theguardian.com