LOS ANGELES - The Doomsday Clock remains at 100 seconds to midnight, the closest symbolic point to humanity’s destruction since the Cold War when the U.S.
and Soviet Union tested their first thermonuclear weapons. The time is unchanged from 2020, when the hands move the closest to midnight in the clock’s history.The last time the Doomsday Clock was set this close to symbolic destruction was in 1957 when the U.S.
and Soviet Union tested their first thermonuclear weapons and the clock was set to two minutes to midnight.On Jan. 23, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced the decision, saying the mishandling of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is a "wake-up call" that "governments, institutions, and a misled public remain unprepared to.