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Bill Nye looking at his watch

The Doomsday Clock, pictured here next to scientist Bill Nye, is a symbol reflecting global instability and nuclear threat.

Jacquelyn Martin/AP

Bill Nye looking at his watch

The Doomsday Clock, pictured here next to scientist Bill Nye, is a symbol reflecting global instability and nuclear threat.

Jacquelyn Martin/AP

‘Doomsday Clock’ Is 90 seconds to midnight (aka total annihilation)

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for “how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making.”

The Doomsday Clock, pictured here next to scientist Bill Nye, is a symbol reflecting global instability and nuclear threat.

Jacquelyn Martin/AP

   

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — a scientific advocacy group — reset the world’s “Doomsday Clock” at a mere 90 seconds to midnight. The clock, created in 1947, is a symbol reflecting global instability and nuclear threat.

Reset talked to a UChicago professor to learn more about the history of the clock and how a time is picked every year.

GUEST: Daniel Holz, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics, U Chicago

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