WHAT THE HELL, THEY'RE ONLY ATOMIC SCIENTISTS...
"It is 100 seconds to midnight. We are now expressing how close the world is to catastrophe in seconds—not hours, or even minutes," Bronson said Thursday. "It is the closest to Doomsday we have ever been in the history of the Doomsday Clock. We now face a true emergency—an absolutely unacceptable state of world affairs that has eliminated any margin for error or further delay."
America is screwed because Our Boy in the WH doesn't do multi anything...
More generally, the Bulletin called for "multilateral discussions aimed at establishing norms of behavior, both domestic and international, that discourage and penalize the misuse of science," emphasizing that "focused attention is needed to prevent information technology from undermining public trust in political institutions, in the media, and in the existence of objective reality itself."