Meeting On 'Doomsday Clock' Set For Tuesday
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Keepers of the Doomsday Clock are to meet on Tuesday on whether to move to closer to, or further from, global disaster.
The symbolic clock from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is currently set at three minutes to midnight.
Several members have concerns about president-elect Donald Trump's comments that he'll rip up the Iran nuclear deal without specifying how he'll replace it, Executive Director Rachel Bronson said.
The Bulletin's Science and Security Board has always weighed campaign rhetoric and reality when deciding on the clock, she says.
Bronson says they'll also consider the Paris climate agreement and North Korea's missile testing.
The board will decide on Tuesday but won't reveal it, and may later revise it, at their next meeting on Jan. 26, six days after Trump's inauguration.
The Bulletin, based at the University of Chicago, created the Doomsday Clock in 1947.
The closest it has come to the apocalypse is two minutes to midnight in 1953, after the United States and Russia both tested hydrogen bombs.
