The announcement that the Doomsday Clock’s hands won’t move this year could be seen as a hopeful sign.
Given the COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that the United States and Russia are trading versions of I-dare-you over Ukraine, the announcement Thursday that the Doomsday Clock’s hands won’t move this year could be seen as a hopeful sign.
“The doorstep of doom is no place to loiter,” the Bulletin wrote in explaining a decision announced virtually. By itself, that’s a telling sign of the times. Before COVID, the “reveal” was annually made at the National Press Club in Washington. Holing up in the Bulletin’s offices at the University of Chicago makes poetic sense. Just across campus is the birthplace of the Atomic Age. There, in 1943, Enrico Fermi demonstrated a self-sustaining splitting of atoms, an experiment that led to the development of the A-bomb.Chicago artist Martyl Langsdorf designed the image of the clock 75 years ago
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