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The Doomsday Clock Shockingly Warns Us: We’re Nearing Destruction in 100 Seconds!

Are we nearing the final apocalypse?

Nikhil Vemu
Lessons from History
5 min readFeb 4, 2021

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Yes. There’s a clock that sets its time according to the good and bad happenings in the contemporary world. If it reaches midnight 12:00 sharp, the world has ended already. Horrendously, there’s only 100 seconds time for the apocalypse!

Relax… Not exactly 100 seconds, but a closer time, which we could again readjust by creating peace and harmony. Here’s what you need to know about the Doomsday clock.

What’s the Mysterious Clock exactly?

The Doomsday Clock was created by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. It is a non-profit group founded by Albert Einstein and students at the University of Chicago in 1945.

Their first intent of its creation was to represent the level of mishaps and caution the world about how close it is to a possible apocalypse. So, humans would have something to alarm them when they’re moving closer towards destruction.

Things Contributing to Their Definition of Apocalypse:

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