BBC: Doomsday Clock frozen at two minutes to apocalypse
The "new abnormal" the world is facing from risks like nuclear war and climate change has led the symbolic Doomsday Clock to be frozen at the closest it has ever been to midnight.
The clock, created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) in 1947, intends to warn of impending disasters.
Its 2019 setting was announced on Thursday - staying in the same perilous position it was set at last year.
The BAS has warned we are "normalising a very dangerous world".
It marks only the third year the clock has been so close to midnight - first reaching the position in 1953 after the US and the Soviet Union tested highly destructive hydrogen bombs.
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