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Doomsday Clock
(redirected from Three minutes to midnight)

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Doomsday Clock
A symbolic clock face, maintained since 1947 by atomic scientists at the University of Chicago, that views humans as minutes from midnight—i.e., catastrophic destruction


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By 1984, at the height (or nadir) of the Reagan-Brezhnev era, the clock read three minutes to midnight.
I recently read that,if the world was made in 24 hours, then humans appeared at three minutes to midnight.
I recently read that if the world was made in twenty-four hours then humans appeared at three minutes to midnight.
 
 
 
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