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Doomsday Clock has never been closer to midnight

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The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is now at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to the nominal marker for the end of the world. © Reuters

Nancy Snow is strategic communications adviser to the International Security Industry Council of Japan, which works with foreign defense companies seeking local partners, and a member of the editorial board of the academic journal Defence Strategic Communications. She is the co-author of the upcoming eighth edition of the book "Propaganda & Persuasion." The views expressed here are solely personal.

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