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CNN: The Doomsday Clock says it’s almost the end of the world as we know it. (And that’s not fine.)

By | January 24, 2019



The Doomsday Clock says it’s almost the end of the world as we know it. (And that’s not fine.)
By Holly Yan

If you have anything left on your bucket list, do it now, because the world is close to annihilation. That’s according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which gave its annual presentation of the Doomsday Clock on Thursday. A group of scientists and scholars, including 15 Nobel laureates, set the clock at 11:58 p.m. — two minutes before the symbolic apocalyptic midnight.

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