(ANSA) - NEW YORK, 07 MAR - The Apocalypse Clock remains one hundred seconds from midnight: this is announced by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists who annually keep the pulse of the dangers of a nuclear holocaust.
The organization, which has reunited in recent days, had set the risk at one hundred seconds from Armageddongià in January, on the occasion of the annual update of the assessment of the danger.
"That the hands have not moved does not mean that the situation has stabilized," explained a spokesman: "The invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the conquest of the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia mean that humanity has reached the closest point. always to nuclear self-destruction ".
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was founded after Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Eugene Rabinowitch and other scientists from the University of Chicagoche who had contributed to the construction of the first atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project.
The Doomsday Clock has been offering its ratings for 75 years.
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