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Doomsday Clock: Humanity's Destruction Just 5 Minutes Away for All of 2013
By Alexandra Ward
The hands of the Doomsday Clock will remain at five minutes to midnight for the year 2013, a group of atomic scientists announced Monday.
Used to symbolize humanity's proximity to total destruction from nuclear or biological weapons, climate change, and other human-caused disasters, the Doomsday Clock has been maintained since 1947 by the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago . The closer they set the clock to midnight each year, the closer they estimate the world is to global disaster.
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