The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will host a dwell virtual news convention at 10:00 a.m. EST/1500 GMT on Thursday, Jan. 20 to announce the 2022 Doomsday Clock time and begin the 75th anniversary of the legendary Clock.
The announcement can be viewed on the Bulletin’s web-site or its Fb site.
For 75 a long time, the Doomsday Clock has acted as a metaphor for how near humanity is to self-annihilation. Given that 1947, it has also served as a get in touch with-to-action to reverse the fingers, which have moved backwards right before. The Doomsday Clock is set per year by the Bulletin’s Science and Stability Board in consultation with the organization’s Board of Sponsors.
The 2022 Doomsday Clock plan will feature remarks from:
- Hank Green, science communicator, vlogger, and New York Periods finest-offering author (An Certainly Impressive Matter). Hank is acknowledged for manufacturing the well-known YouTube channel Vlogbrothers with his brother, creator John Environmentally friendly (The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns, Turtles All the Way Down)
- Rachel Bronson, PhD, president and CEO, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Asha M. George, DrPH, executive director, Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense, and member, Science and Safety Board (SASB), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Herb Lin, ScD, senior investigation scholar for cyber plan and security at the Middle for Global Protection and Cooperation and Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Plan and Protection at the Hoover Establishment at Stanford College, and member, Science and Stability Board (SASB), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Sharon Squassoni, research professor at the Institute for Worldwide Science and Technology Plan, Elliott College of Global Affairs, at the George Washington University, and co-chair, Science and Security Board (SASB), Bulletin of the Atomic Researchers
- Scott D. Sagan, PhD, Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, the Mimi and Peter Haas College Fellow in Undergraduate Schooling, and Senior Fellow at the Heart for Intercontinental Safety and Cooperation (CISAC) and the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) at Stanford College, and member, Science and Stability Board (SASB), Bulletin of the Atomic Researchers and
- Raymond Pierrehumbert, PhD, Halley Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, lead author on the IPCC Third Evaluation Report, and member, Science and Security Board (SASB), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
The Doomsday Clock’s 75th anniversary will also be memorialized in a coffee desk e-book that explores how the effective image has impacted tradition, politics, and global policy—and assisted condition conversations and tactics around nuclear risk, local climate change, and disruptive technologies.
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2022 Doomsday Clock announcement media contacts:
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