The "doomsday-clock" was at two minutes to midnight from 1953 to 1960. At 3 minutes to midnight from 1949-1953, 1984-1988 and 2015-2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock Normaly they do not use half-minutes.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/26/doomsday-clock-closer-to-midnight-in-wake-of-donald-trump-election?CMP=share_btn_fb" rel="nofollow - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/26/doomsday-clock-closer-to-midnight-in-wake-of-donald-trump-election?CMP=share_btn_fb and http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-26/doomsday-clock-advances-two-and-half-minutes-midnight-trump-blamed" rel="nofollow - http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-26/doomsday-clock-advances-two-and-half-minutes-midnight-trump-blamed . Trump is one of several reasons for the 1/2 minute move. Nuclear weapons (North Korea) and climate change are the main factors.
------------- We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. ~Albert Einstein
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