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Do people still pay attention to the Doomsday Clock, published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists?

Perhaps they should. Perhaps the fact that they don’t is a big part of the problem.

For here we are, in 2023, and the Doomsday Clock was just set to an unprecedented 90 seconds before midnight. Never before were we this close.

Ukraine, of course, is part of it, along with the recklessly irresponsible nuclear threats of Putin and his cronies. The use of nuclear power stations like Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia as bargaining chips also represent a red line that should never have been crossed.