The most recent officially announced setting-three minutes to midnight-was made in January 2015 due to “checked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals”. Originally, the Clock, which hangs on a wall in The Bulletin’s office in the University of Chicago, represented an analogy for the threat of global nuclear war however, since 2007 it has also reflected climate change and new developments in the life sciences and technology that could inflict irrevocable harm to humanity. The closer they set the Clock to midnight, the more vulnerable the scientists believe the world is to global disaster. It has been maintained since 1947 by the members of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists‘ Science and Security Board, who are in turn advised by the Governing Board and the Board of Sponsors, including 18 Nobel Laureates. The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face that represents a countdown to a possible global catastrophe (e.g., nuclear war or climate change). When asked about the song Bruce Dickinson explained: “It’s about the romance of war, and how we’re all repelled and fascinated by it at the same time.” This week, scientists are deciding whether to adjust the clock from its current position of three minutes to two minutes.
The song is about the threat of nuclear war and the ominous sounding, Doomsday Clock. Iron Maiden’s classic song, “Two Minutes to Midnight” is especially poignant today.
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