Doomsday Clock Moves 30 Seconds Closer to Midnight
Clip: 2/2/2017 | 8m 35sVideo has Closed Captions
Is rhetoric edging us closer to doomsday? The Doomsday Clock is 2.5 minutes to midnight.
Last week, the Doomsday Clock edged 30 seconds closer to midnight, putting the world two and a half symbolic minutes away from global annihilation. Is the way the world ends not with a bang, but with a tweet? Host Phil Ponce talks about the ticking clock with Rachel Bronson, executive director and publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Doomsday Clock Moves 30 Seconds Closer to Midnight
Clip: 2/2/2017 | 8m 35sVideo has Closed Captions
Last week, the Doomsday Clock edged 30 seconds closer to midnight, putting the world two and a half symbolic minutes away from global annihilation. Is the way the world ends not with a bang, but with a tweet? Host Phil Ponce talks about the ticking clock with Rachel Bronson, executive director and publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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