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Members of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists unveil the 2017 time for the "Doomsday Clock" on January 26th, 2017, in Washington, D.C. For the first time in the 70-year history of the Doomsday Clock, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the clock forward 30 seconds to two and a half minutes before midnight.

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What a Doomsday Clock Represents in Troubled Times

The news hints that we are getting closer to Armageddon—but some say we are more peaceful now than in the past. How do we make sense of this contradiction?