{"id":81425,"date":"2026-03-16T07:26:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81425"},"modified":"2026-03-16T07:26:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:26:45","slug":"doomsday-clock-also-springs-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/doomsday-clock-also-springs-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Doomsday Clock&#8217; Also Springs Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earth is closer than it\u2019s ever been to destruction as\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Russia<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/china\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">China<\/a><\/span>, the U.S. and other countries become \u201cincreasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic,\u201d a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its \u201cDoomsday Clock\u201d to 85 seconds till midnight.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist members had an initial demonstration Friday and then announced their results on Tuesday.\u00a0The scientists cited risks of nuclear war,\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/climate-change\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">climate change<\/a><\/span>, potential misuse of biotechnology and the increasing use of\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/artificial-intelligence\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">artificial intelligence<\/a><\/span> without adequate controls as it made the annual announcement, which rates how close humanity is from ending.\u00a0Last year the clock advanced to 89 seconds to midnight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1773645993\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"&#8216;Doomsday Clock&#8217; Also Springs Ahead\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Earth is closer than it\u2019s ever been to destruction as\u00a0Russia,\u00a0China, the U.S. and other countries become \u201cincreasingly aggressive,.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}