Continued efforts to foster this narrative threaten to undermine future US elections, American democracy in general, and, therefore, the United States' ability to lead global efforts to manage existential risk." public to believe the utterly false narrative contending that Joe Biden did not win the U.S. One particularly concerning variety of internet-based disinformation infected America last year: Waves of internet-enabled lies persuaded a significant portion of the U.S. administration made progress in reestablishing the role of science and evidence in public policy, corruption of the information ecosystem continued apace in 2021. presidential election as a major cause for global concern, saying that "while the new U.S. Ukraine remains a potential flashpoint, and Russian troop deployments to the Ukrainian border heighten day-to-day tensions.īAS also cited the disinformation campaign around the 2020 U.S. Other nuclear concerns, including North Korea's unconstrained nuclear and missile expansion and the (as yet) unsuccessful attempts to revive the Iran nuclear deal contribute to growing dangers. If not restrained, these efforts could mark the start of a dangerous new nuclear arms race. relations with Russia and China remain tense, with all three countries engaged in an array of nuclear modernization and expansion efforts - including China’s apparent large-scale program to increase its deployment of silo-based long-range nuclear missiles the push by Russia, China and the United States to develop hypersonic missiles and the continued testing of anti-satellite weapons by many nations. In 2017, however, the BAS moved the second hand forward 30 seconds to 11:57 and 30 seconds. From 2015 to 2016, the minute hand stayed at three minutes before midnight, the closest it had been through the early '80s.
The last time before this century that the clock was that close to midnight and global disaster was after both the United States and Soviet Union tested hydrogen bombs and were engaged in a nuclear arms race.
The Bulletin didn't move the clock in 2021, but did move the minute hand forward in 2020 by 20 seconds, from two minutes before midnight to 100 seconds before midnight. A more moderate and predictable approach to leadership and the control of one of the two largest nuclear arsenals of the world marked a welcome change from the previous four years. policy making in general, especially regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps even more heartening was the return of science and evidence to U.S. policies in some ways that made the world safer: agreeing to an extension of the New START arms control agreement and beginning strategic stability talks with Russia announcing that the United States would seek to return to the Iran nuclear deal and rejoining the Paris climate accord. Indeed, in 2021 the new American administration changed U.S. "Danger is high, and the margin for error is low," Bronson said.Last year’s leadership change in the United States provided hope that what seemed like a global race toward catastrophe might be halted and - with renewed U.S. How these and other considerations will inform the Doomsday Clock's time in 2022 remain to be seen, but humanity is already in the realm of the two-minute warning period and every second counts, BAS President and CEO Rachel Bronson said in 2020. Globally, more than 330 million people have contracted COVID-19, and more than 5.5 million people have died, according to the Coronavirus Resource Center maintained by Johns Hopkins University and Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. and has killed more than 850,000 Americans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Jan.
To date, COVID-19 has infected more than 66 million people in the U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic has also continued to surge, fueled by the emergence in 2021 of the highly contagious omicron variant by public resistance to vaccinations, lockdowns and mask mandates and by unequal access to vaccines and other preventative resources in countries worldwide. The top 10 ways to destroy planet Earth Doomsdays: Top 9 real ways the world could end
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