(24 Jan 2019) The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Thursday that's it's famous Doomsday Clock remains at two minutes to midnight.
Rachel Bronson, president and chief executive of the The Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists, said, "It's a state as worrisome as the most dangerous times of the Cold War."
Bronson, leading a nonprofit panel of the world's leading science and security experts said "This new abnormal is simply too volatile and too dangerous to accept as a continuing state of world affairs."
The panel adjusted the hands to show two minutes until midnight on its hypothetical Doomsday Clock to reflect how close humanity is toward worldwide catastrophe.
William Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense and a member of the panel said that he remembers 1953 and the Cold War.
He recalled the brink of nuclear disaster that occurred then. He said that there are differences between then and now but that currently the world could blunder into nuclear war.
Perry said, "we will blunder into a nuclear war. That, was the real danger during the Cold War as well. But certainly the danger now."
The former defense secretary also discussed the upcoming summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Perry said he did expect that North Korea would give up its nuclear arsenals as an outcome of the meeting between United States and North Korea.

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