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At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, nearly eight decades later, the clock was set at 85 seconds to midnight — the closest the timepiece has ever been to midnight, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which established the clock in 1947.
Midnight represents the moment at which people will have made Earth uninhabitable.
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Midnight represents the moment at which people will have made Earth uninhabitable.
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