How many seconds are we from the end of the world?

In 1947 the board of directors of the Bulletin Of the Atomic Scientists presented at the University of Chicago the symbolic ‘Apocalypse Clock’, or what is the same, the clock that would mark when the end of the world would arrive This clock would mark the end of the world at midnight threatened by a global war. Throughout this period, the clock has been changing time little by little, approaching that symbolic midnight that would mark the end of the world in the face of nuclear war. These minutes that mark for midnight measure the degree of a threat to the world in the form nuclear, environmental or technological warfare and, according to its founders, it is getting closer. Since 2007, the clock also included the effects that climate change could have on the destruction of the planet, and in the last year it has also had take into account the irruption of phenomena such as the global coronavirus pandemic that humanity suffers. “Today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists leaves the Doomsday Clock unchanged. It is 100 seconds to midnight, ”- @ RachelBronson1, President & CEO, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists #DoomsdayClock https://t.co/Vn178C3EPM pic.twitter.com/cQtNgWRt3h – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (@BulletinAtomic) January 27, 2021 Minutes to Apocalypse Every year the clock is adjusted and is closer to the appointed time. When it was launched, it was programmed seven minutes from the end of the world and this time has varied, but always very forward, never backwards.According to those responsible for the ‘Apocalypse Clock’, during these last two years it has been located at the 100 seconds of the end of the world, these two years being the closest it has been positioned to the appointed time of midnight.The coronavirus has influenced this advance, which, as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists recounts in its annual report, “has been a wake-up call for humanity.” The leaders themselves warn that with the march of climate change, the advance of weapons nuclear power, the pandemic or the use of technology, the clock ticks faster until midnight which would mark the beginning of an end of the world for mankind.During all of history the ‘Apocalypse Clock’ has been running only four times. dropped from ten minutes to the end of the world: the first was in 1963 (23:48), in 1972 (23:48), in 1991 (23:43) when it was farthest from midnight, and in 1995, which stood at 23:47.