A Nervous Tick

“The group, started by physicists who built the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, took the ‘unprecedented’ step of moving the clock ahead by 30 seconds, to just 2½ minutes before midnight. It’s the closest the clock has been to midnight since 1953.” The Doomsday Clock has moved closer to midnight. (Interesting that this isn’t even close to being the most disturbing news of the day.)