Countdown to the Apocalypse: Scientists to Change Doomsday Clock

[Capper]

Scientists on Wednesday will change the time on Chicago’s Doomsday Clock based on what they say is the “most perilous period since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”

They based their decision on countries increasingly seeking nuclear technology, the United States’ and Russia’s ability to readily launch 2,000 of their 25,000 nuclear weapons, as well as threats posed by global warming, bioterrorism and an overall increase in worldwide terrorism, the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said in a press release.

The group specifically singled out Iran and North Korea as examples of the threat posed by countries striving for nuclear technology.

Countdown to the Apocalypse: Scientists to Change Doomsday Clock

[Cyberlon]

...So they are pushing it back a century then? j/k
Didn't they have a doomsday clock back in the 14th century that shoud have gone off by now too? Personally, I like the deathclock... it seems more realistic.

[gvblake22]

hmmmm, what a lovely thought. My how the world is such a happy, friendly place now!

[Mithosphere]

why does that clock look like it took 5 minutes to make from poster board? C'mon you scientist peoples cant you at least make some blingified alarm clock?

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Mithosphere

why does that clock look like it took 5 minutes to make from poster board? C'mon you scientist peoples cant you at least make some blingified alarm clock?

I got to agree, that's cheap stuff. :P I like the black borders, makes a nice cartoonish effect.