"Doomsday Clock" ticks closer to catastrophe amid war in Ukraine

A group of atomic scientists on Tuesday moved the hands of the "Doomsday Clock" to 90 seconds to midnight -- the closest ever for the symbolic estimate of human proximity to self-caused annihilation -- citing growing dangers from the ongoing war waged by Russia in Ukraine.The clock, created in 1947 and maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, was at a position of 100 seconds to midnight for the third year until 2022."Russia's invasion of Ukraine has increased the risk of nuclear weapons use, raised the specter of biological and chemical weapons use, hamstrung the world's respons…READ FULL ARTICLE