(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)The December 1991 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the journal behind the famed Doomsday Clock, was brimming with optimism. More than a quarter-century after its brightest moment, the Doomsday Clock is again approaching the final hour. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientist’s “Doomsday Clock” reads seven minutes to midnight after being adjusted two minutes closer in February 2002. Others have argued the Doomsday Clock shouldn’t be taken seriously at all. Two years earlier, when the fall of the Berlin Wall brought the end of the Cold War, the Bulletin had moved the Doomsday Clock to 10 minutes before midnight.

Source: Washington Post January 27, 2017 10:26 UTC