Washington, January 24: The Doomsday clock, created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) in 1947, which warns of impending disasters is frozen at two minutes to midnight 슬롯사이트� a sign that we are now living in a 슬롯사이트œnew abnormal슬롯사이트� of being perilously close to the possibility of nuclear war.

The symbolic Doomsday Clock슬롯사이트™s 2019 setting was announced on Thursday as it . The BAS warned that we are "normalising a very dangerous world". The continued position of two minutes to apocalypse was also called "bad news indeed" for the world by representatives of the BAS.

While announcing this year슬롯사이트™s setting, the organisation considered increased carbon emissions from some countries, continued scenarios of war and diplomatic crisis across the world. The former US Defence secretary William Perry said that the Singapore summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, succeeded in calming some of the 슬롯사이트œhysteria슬롯사이트� between US and North Korea however there was .

Increased US-Russia tensions, the announcement of US withdrawal from the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with Moscow all signal increased tensions last seen during times of Cold War.

슬롯사이트œWe are like passengers on the Titanic, ignoring the iceberg ahead, enjoying the fine food and music,슬롯사이트� said Former California governor Jerry Brown, who serves as BAS executive chair. He also cautioned, "We're playing Russian roulette with humanity", citing the imminent threats to humanity. 슬롯사이트œIt슬롯사이트™s late and it슬롯사이트™s getting later. We have to wake people up. And that슬롯사이트™s what I intend to do!슬롯사이트�

Meanwhile, Rachel Bronson, the Bulletin슬롯사이트™s president lay the blame for the current perilous state at Washington슬롯사이트™s doorstep, saying there should be no comfort taken from the fact that the clock did not move forward over the past year. 슬롯사이트œThis new abnormal is a pernicious and dangerous departure from the time when the United States sought a leadership role in designing and supporting global agreements that advanced a safer and healthier planet,슬롯사이트� Bronson said.

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