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The clock is now closer to apocalyptic midnight, than at any time during the lifetime of vast majority of readers here, myself included. It is worse than during
by efoto 10y ago
The clock is now closer to apocalyptic midnight, than at any time during the lifetime of vast majority of readers here, myself included. It is worse than during both the Caribbean crisis and early 80th.
- MrZongle2 10y agoWhich, given some of the close calls in the early 80s and the Cuban Missile Crisis, illustrates how absurd this whole thing has become.
- grzm 10y agoThe clock isn't updated instantly. The closest nuclear war threat, the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, reached crisis, climax, and resolution before the Clock could be set to reflect that possible doomsday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock#Symbolic_timepiece_changes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock#Symbolic_timepi...
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