A physicist, a career ambassador and a retired navy admiral at the National Press Club presided over the annual unveiling of the cardboard clock, showing the hands now at two-and-a-half minutes to midnight, representing an increased risk of global disaster.
"This is historic. The clock has not been closer to midnight in 64 years," said Arizona State University theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss.
“We’ve never moved the clock a half minute,” - a break from the full-minute ticks, explained Rachel Bronson, the executive director and publisher of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. "That’s because words do matter. The stakes are so high.”
Those unveiling the 2017 clock told reporters the rhetoric of newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump to impede progress in nuclear disarmament and climate change was a key factor in deciding the time change.
The new president, they acknowledge, also can single-handedly help send the hands of the doomsday clock moving backwards to safety.
voanews.com
26/1/17
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