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The possibility of nuclear war has translated the hands of the so-called “Clock” Doomsday 30 seconds ahead. Recall that Doomsday Clock were created in 1947 by scientists at the University of Chicago as a visual representation of how close humanity is to global cataclysm. This symbolic image impending danger quickly resonated in pop culture and became quite popular.
In 1947, the time was set at 23:53. When The Soviet Union tested its first nuclear bomb in 1949, the arrows moved to 23:57. In 1963, when the USSR and the USA signed nuclear weapons test ban treaty, steel clock show 23:48. The decision to transfer arrows is made by many international experts, including 18 Nobel Prize winners. The midnight on the clock symbolizes the Apocalypse, and the closer the hands approaching it, the closer, according to scientists, the global catastrophe that will destroy humanity or its greater part.
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Last year, the arrows moved from 23:57 to 23:57:30, when America’s newly elected president Donald Trump stated that The United States will continue to build nuclear capabilities. Now, the time on the Doomsday Clock has been added another half minute, and Now they show 23:58. So close to midnight sinister The chronometer showed only in 1953, when the USSR and the USA tested with nine months apart deadly thermonuclear bombs.
Today is approaching a global catastrophe, according to experts contributed to the aggravation of relations between the “citadel democracy “and North Korea. Say, the DPRK seeks significant success in the development of nuclear weapons, and provocative US and North Korean rhetoric increases the risk of that the war will begin by mistake or a simple misunderstanding. Fears over the end of the world also increased due to friction between the US and Russia, tensions between Pakistan and India, the situation in South China Sea, as well as uncertainties in the Iranian issue nuclear program. There are other serious international conflicts, not for nothing that some independent experts claim that the Third world war has long been going on, at least since 2008 …
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