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Doomsday clock moves closer to midnight amid Cold War tensions
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advances its doomsday clock from 4 minutes to 3 minutes before midnight signaling heightened nuclear risk. Editors cite failures in nuclear control and US Soviet rifts as fueling the shift, the closest to nuclear doomsday since 1953. Events marked in Chicago London Washington Stockholm Tokyo accompany the reveal.
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