‘We can also change course’
Melissa Parke, Executive Director of ICAN (the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), explained that the clock is intended to raise awareness rather than provide an exact prediction.
“The Doomsday Clock is not a prediction, it’s a warning,” Parke told The Standard. “Nuclear weapons, wars from Ukraine to Gaza, the climate crisis and runaway technologies are all part of the problem – but they are all created by humanity.”
