Taken from the September 2020 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "100 seconds to midnight".
For almost 75 years, the Doomsday Clock has monitored how close humankind is to global catastrophe. With the clock now closer to midnight than ever before, Rachel Brazil talks to physicists who say we must step up our efforts to prevent disaster
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