Abstract
In January this year the iconic Doomsday Clock was moved two minutes closer to midnight. Maintained by the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the clock is symbolic of how close the world is to nuclear destruction. Its new position at 11.55 p.m. means that the clock is now closer to midnight than at any time since 1988, and reflects what the Bulletin's board of directors sees as a possible “second nuclear age”. They cite several reasons for this pessimism – the nuclear ambitions of countries such as Iran and North Korea, the growing risk that unsecured nuclear material will fall into the hands of terrorists, a revived interest in nuclear power, and the continuing launch-ready state of nuclear weapons in the US and Russia.
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