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Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board and Juan Manuel Santos, chair of The Elders and former president of Colombia, announce the setting of the Doomsday Clock on January 28, 2025 at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. It is now 89 seconds to midnight. Left to right: Daniel Holz, Herb Lin, Juan Manuel Santos, Robert Socolow, and Suzet McKinney. (Photo by Jamie Christiani/Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

PRESS RELEASE: Doomsday Clock set at 89 seconds to midnight, closest ever to human extinction

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