Thank you all for being here today.

It is the determination of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic

scientists that the world has not made sufficient progress on existential risks threatening

all of humanity.

We thus move the clock forward.

Every second of delay in reversing course

increases the probability of global disaster.

It is now 89 seconds to midnight.

This is the closest the world has ever been to midnight.

The doomsday clock seems like something from science fiction, but it is in fact very real.

Coming up on more to the story, Daniel Holtz from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

explains why global existential threats

are moving us closer to midnight.

Stay with us.

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