Even after Biden’s victory, the “Doomsday Clock” remains at only 100 seconds before midnight.
Since the 1940s, BOTH of the U.S.’s big political parties have enthusiastically supported nuclear weapons. BOTH parties have allowed the climate crisis to get worse over the decades. Every year in late January the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announces how close we are to “Doomsday.” Recently it has been the closest to “midnight” that it has ever been, and the climate crisis has been a factor along with nuclear weapons. Replacing Trump with Biden did not cause the “Doomsday Clock” to back away from midnight. On January 27, 2021, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that we are […]