"Doomsday Clock" stuck at 2 minutes to "midnight"

Scientists on Thursday kept the famed nuclear "Doomsday Clock" at two minutes to midnight, a position reached last year that matches a record set in 1953 at the height of the Cold War.The symbolic clock, based at the University of Chicago and maintained by the magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has served as a monitor on the possible use of nuclear weapons and nuclear war, with midnight representing global catastrophe.Last year, the scientists adjusted it half a minute closer to midnight after U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea exchanged personal insults and threats of war…READ FULL ARTICLE