Last month, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced that it had moved its so-called Doomsday Clock three minutes closer to midnight. The Doomsday Clock is internationally recognised as an indicator of how close we are to destroying ourselves with advanced equipment and technologies, most importantly with nuclear weapons.
August this year marks the 70th anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by United States (US) nuclear weapons.
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