Doomsday Clock

From Afternoons, 1:12 pm on 27 January 2017

We're apparently now closer to the end of humanity than we ever have been in the last 64 years. The Bulletin of Atomic scientists, who're the group behind the famed Doomsday Clock, have adjusted the clock by another 30 seconds, meaning we are two and a half minutes away from The End of it All. Professor Robert Ayson from Victoria University's Centre of Strategic Studies discusses why we are closer to the end.

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