Doomsday Clock Moves Closer To Midnight, But Can We Really Predict The End Of The World?

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Clockwatchers are getting impatient. EPA

The second hand of the Doomsday Clock is now only three minutes to midnight. This is the closest to apocalypse we have come since 1984 – the coldest of Cold War years, just a year after Able Archer, the Petrov incident and Reagan’s “evil empire” speech.