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Podcast: Big Brains
Episode: Why The Doomsday Clock Is Closer To Apocalypse Than Ever With Rachel Bronson
Description: Since its inception following World War II, the Doomsday Clock has measured our time until apocalypse in minutes. This year, for the first time, the clock set our time to midnight in just seconds. Rachel Bronson is the CEO and president of the Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists, the organization that sets the clock. Even though the Clock is a metaphor, she says understanding the meaning behind it is a matter of life and death. This year, the Bulletin cited two major factors in their decision: the threat of nuclear destruction and the ever worsening problem of clim...