https://www.livescience.com/doomsday-clock-2021.html

ByMindy Weisberger-Senior Writer3 hours ago

Our destruction is close, but it creeps no closer … for now.

During Operation Upshot-Knothole, the U.S. Army exploded 11 nuclear bombs at a test site in Nevada between March and June in 1953. In the last of those tests — code name “Climax” — a 61-kiloton device was detonated on June 4, 1953.(Image: © Stocktrek Images/Getty)

Nuclear weapons, globalpandemics, acceleratingclimate change: Is humanity running out of time? Despite 2020’s general awfulness, humanity paused on the path forward to armageddon — at least, according to the Doomsday Clock, a hypothetical timepiece that annually assesses our nearness to utter annihilation.

This year, the Doomsday Clock’s hands will not be moving forward, and it continues to show the same time that was set last year: 100 seconds to midnight, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS), a global organization…