Montana and the World – 4 Seconds Taken Away for Doomsday

Well, so much for fixing that crazy slice I have on the golf course and shooting my age.

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We now are 4 seconds closer to doomsday as of January 27, 2026.  Scientists say despite warnings from past years, the world is instead now seeing "Russia, China, the United States, and other major countries become increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic".

Yikes!  Maybe I need to rethink that golf trip with the buddies later this year.

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Montana and the World - 4 Seconds Taken Away for Doomsday

The Doomsday Clock is now set at 85 seconds to midnight, which also happens to be the most dangerous setting that the clock has been at since its inception back in 1947.  The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists point to several reasons as to why we are that much closer to Armageddon.

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Things like nuclear threats, climate change and biosecurity were all cited for major red flags in the world.  Those coupled with the ever-evolving artificial intelligence, and the prevalence of misinformation.

Sky Not Falling, It Isn't a Literal Prediction - But It Bares Heeding a Little

The Doomsday Clock was developed by some pretty big names in science back in 1945, including "Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project".

2 years later, the group would introduce the clock, and since that time, it is "set every year by the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes eight Nobel laureates".

Not to be a Chicken Little, but yeah, moving four seconds closer seems to at least heed a little bit of attention with these kinds of credentials backing things up it would seem.  Better start working on that slice I guess before the spring hits.