See the full statement from the Science and Security Board on the 2018 time of the Doomsday Clock. They can seize the opportunity to make a safer and saner world. They can demand action to reduce the existential threat of nuclear war and unchecked climate change. They can insist on facts, and discount nonsense. Leaders react when citizens insist they do so, and citizens around the world can use the power of the internet to improve the long-term prospects of their children and grandchildren. The developers have added to us the Japanese Empire and a chapter in the campaign - 'Axis Union'. But there is a flip side to the abuse of social media. First person shooter - Call of Duty: World at War - continues the series of games about the Second World War, where the action takes place in the years 1942-1945. The world has seen the threat posed by the misuse of information technology and witnessed the vulnerability of democracies to disinformation. The opportunity to reduce the danger is equally clear.
The warning the Science and Security Board now sends is clear, the danger obvious and imminent. It is two minutes to midnight, but the Doomsday Clock has ticked away from midnight in the past, and during the next year, the world can again move it further from apocalypse.
The failure of world leaders to address the largest threats to humanity’s future is lamentable-but that failure can be reversed.
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