No Closer to ‘Doomsday’
The “Doomsday Clock,” a symbolic measure of the world’s proximity to nuclear annihilation, remains at seven minutes to midnight, but such worries as a U.S.-led war against Iraq could move the timepiece closer to Armageddon, its keeper said Thursday.
“Notwithstanding [chief United Nations weapons inspector] Hans Blix’s comment the other day that the clock was at five minutes to midnight, it remains at seven minutes,” said Stephen Schwartz, publisher of the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The clock was created by directors of the magazine.
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