{"id":19412,"date":"2021-02-05T15:59:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T23:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=19412"},"modified":"2021-02-05T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T22:30:12","slug":"the-doomsday-clock-and-tick-tocks-to-annihilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/the-doomsday-clock-and-tick-tocks-to-annihilation\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Doomsday Clock&#8217; and &#8216;tick-tocks&#8217; to annihilation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19239\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/lawmakers-asking-whether-cyberattack-is-act-of-war\/warning-300x100-300x100-11\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,100\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"warning-300&amp;#215;100-300&amp;#215;100\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19239\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19413\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/the-doomsday-clock-and-tick-tocks-to-annihilation\/gettyimages-1195478005\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Doomsday-Clock-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1440\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;AFP via Getty Images&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;The Doomsday Clock reads 100 seconds to midnight, a decision made by the &lt;em&gt;Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists&lt;\/em&gt; that was announced Thursday. The clock is intended to represent the danger of global catastrophe.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;gettyimages-1195478005&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"gettyimages-1195478005\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Doomsday Clock reads 100 seconds to midnight, a decision made by the &lt;em&gt;Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists&lt;\/em&gt; that was announced Thursday. The clock is intended to represent the danger of global catastrophe.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Doomsday-Clock-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19413\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Doomsday-Clock-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Doomsday-Clock-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Doomsday-Clock-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Doomsday-Clock-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Doomsday-Clock-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reporter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/by\/wallace-henley\"> Wallace B. Henley<\/a> &#8211; February 3, 2021<\/p>\n<p>According to the \u201cDoomsday Clock\u201d we are only 100 \u201cseconds\u201d from the \u201cmidnight\u201d of apocalyptic doom.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the pronouncement of a wild-eyed fortuneteller, crazed would-be prophet, or frenzied alarmist, but a worldwide conglomerate of scientists and policymakers. They assemble annually to assess global threats and fragility, and endurance limits for the planet, its inhabitants, their societies, and civilizations.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle by which the experts reveal their carefully reasoned estimate of the approach of \u201cDoomsday\u201d is the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS). On January 27 BAS announced its findings virtually (ironically, due to COVID, one of the threat-accelerators that hasten the tick-tocks to annihilation).<\/p>\n<p>The BAS experts tell us that we are closer to the end than at any point since the \u201cclock\u201d was presented in 1947. This is only the second time the \u201cclock\u201d has been this close to the midnight of global extermination.<sup>[1]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith wide-spread mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic&#8230; little progress in eliminating nuclear weapons; and insufficient mitigation of destructive climate change, the BAS decided to hold the clock at the present, perilous time, and a warning and \u2018wake-up call,\u2019\u201d declared the BAS.<sup>[2]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/the-doomsday-clock-and-tick-tocks-to-annihilation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.christianpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wallace B. Henley &#8211; February 3, 2021 According to the \u201cDoomsday Clock\u201d we are only 100 \u201cseconds\u201d from the \u201cmidnight\u201d of apocalyptic doom. This is not the pronouncement of a wild-eyed fortuneteller, crazed would-be prophet, or frenzied alarmist, but a worldwide conglomerate of scientists and policymakers. They assemble annually to assess global threats and fragility, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/the-doomsday-clock-and-tick-tocks-to-annihilation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The &#8216;Doomsday Clock&#8217; and &#8216;tick-tocks&#8217; to annihilation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[15562,15559,15561,36,5880,15563,15560,578,8],"class_list":["post-19412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warning","tag-annihilation","tag-apocalyptic-doom","tag-bas","tag-disaster","tag-doomsday-clock","tag-global-extermination","tag-global-threats","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-536","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19414,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19412\/revisions\/19414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}