The Doomsday Clock has remained at 100 seconds, staying the closest to midnight it has ever been for the second year running.
Maintaining last year's grim record means the clock's keepers perceived threat of global apocalypse has not cooled off in the past 12 months.
Last year the clock was moved forward by 20 seconds.
Rachel Bronson, president and chief executive of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, cited the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as one of the reasons for this year's count, saying: "We recognise that humanity continues to suffer as the Covid-19 pandemic spreads around the world.
https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2021/0127/1193434-doomsday/
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