Who sets the Doomsday Clock?
created: Jan. 28, 2026, 7:48 p.m. | updated: Jan. 28, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
Goodnight ticking Doomsday Clock.”Eighty-two years ago, my grandfather George Strasser began his career as a nuclear weapons scientist enriching uranium for the first atomic bomb.
In the Doomsday Clock, I found a shorthand to communicate the imminent and increasing existential threat of nuclear weapons.
How do the clock setters distill horror and uncertainty into a time on a metaphorical clock?
It’s our responsibility to take care of ourselves.”Despite his commitment to the metaphorical clock, Holz craves quantifiability and enjoys a hard math problem.
He believes that the erosion of shared reality is a greater danger than putting AI in control of nuclear weapons.
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