Information warfare is amplifying major worldwide threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, endangering the future of civilization, US experts said Thursday as the symbolic Doomsday Clock stayed at two minutes to midnight. “Humanity now faces two simultaneous existential threats, either of which would be cause for extreme concern and immediate attention,” the group said in a statement. Over the past year, the “rhetoric” between North Korea and the United States “has eased but remains extremely dangerous,” said Bronson. On tensions with North Korea, former US defense secretary William Perry said the latest talks between the Washington and Pyongyang may have done “nothing” to move North Korea away from its nuclear program. “The blindness and stupidity of the politicians and their consultants is truly shocking in the face of nuclear catastrophe and danger,” Brown said.

Source: Egypt Independent January 25, 2019 12:22 UTC