The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board said it had decided to move the clock 30 seconds closer to midnight for the first time in 70 years, making the current time two and a half minutes to "midnight" (understood as a global catastrophe inflicting irrevocable harm to humankind).
"In another first, the Board has decided to act, in part, based on the words of a single person: Donald Trump, the new President of the United States," read the statement.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is an academic journal focused on global security and the dangers posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, which was founded in 1945 by former physicists of the Manhattan Project that developed the world's first atomic weapons.
The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 and has been continuously updated since then by members of the Bulletin, who in turn are advised by its Governing Board and the Board of Sponsors, including 18 Nobel Prize winners.
An "already-threatening world situation was the backdrop for a rise in strident nationalism worldwide in 2016," the statement explained.
"Donald Trump made disturbing comments about the use and proliferation of nuclear weapons and expressed disbelief in the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change," it added.
EFE/EPA
26/1/17
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