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 | They say that we are only 5 minutes from Doomsday. What do you think? | |
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| As a professor, I can only say that this is pure speculation. This doomsday prediction has been here since ... well... this is the 18th time the clock's hands have moved since it was created in 1947. | |
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| That was after the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? | |
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| Yes, two years after that! At the start of the nuclear arms race in 1953, the clock came within two minutes of midnight. | |
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| Wow, two minutes to Doomsday! That is scary! | |
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| However, thankfully, in 1991, after the Soviet Union and U.S. signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the clock moved the furthest from doomsday it's ever been, to 11:43. | |
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