At this precise moment we are the closest to apocalypse since the 1950s, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ symbolic Doomsday Clock. The organisation engages science and security experts as well as policy makers on nuclear weapons and disarmament, climate change and the risks posed by emerging technologies, to predict how close we are to doomsday. The clock has been adjusted six times throughout the 21st century. This graphic reveals the reasons behind why the world is slowly creeping towards midnight, the hypothetical armageddon...
