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The hands of the famous Doomsday watches have been moved to one minute closer to the fatal mark. Doomsday Clock – a symbolic timestamp tool before the global disaster caused by insufficient progress in nuclear and climate issues. Now the time on the watch is 23:55. IN BUS statement (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Bulletin nuclear scientists) concerns about proliferation of nuclear weapons. Last time clock hands transferred in 2010, but at that time the time was moved to a minute ago, as scientists felt what was being done enough effort to address global threats. Now the statement said: “In most cases undertaken attempts did not continue, or transformed into the opposite. “Doomsday” was launched in 1947 and originally in the concept of “global catastrophe” was meant nuclear war, but recently they began to classify threats global warming, the development of technologies that could lead harm the whole planet. In 1949, the clock showed 11:57 due to deterioration of relations between the Soviet Union and the United States. In 1953, as a result of the first test of a hydrogen bomb, a watch stopped at 11:58. The most optimistic indicators were in 1991 the year when the termination agreement was signed between the United States and the Soviet Socialist Republic strategic weapons. Allison McFarlane notes: “Perhaps the world community is at the point of no return trying prevent catastrophe from changing planetary atmosphere “B the start time of the clock was at 23:53, from now on they were moved about 20 times.
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