Preacher's Piece

I came across an organization this week that I had never heard of before. It’s called “The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.”

Since 1947, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (heretofore referred to simply as the Bulletin) has portrayed on its cover what is called the Doomsday Clock. This clock registers how close the world is to nuclear apocalypse by the proximity of the minute hand to midnight. A group of nuclear scientists meet in Chicago twice a year to weigh both positive and negative factors in the world and make their determination about how close we are to ruin....