10 January 2012
Last updated at 23:35 ET
Scientists said trends that moved the clock back in 2010 had not been continued
The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic gauge of nuclear danger, has moved one minute closer to midnight because of “inadequate progress” on nuclear and climate issues.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) announced the move – to five minutes before midnight – on Tuesday.
The clock last moved one minute back in 2010.
BAS said the failure of multiple nations to control the spread of nuclear weapons was a cause for worry.
The group, which created the clock in 1947, said that two years ago it believed world leaders were trying to address global threat issues.
“In many cases, that trend has not continued or been reversed,” it said in a statement to explain the change.
‘No return’
Jayantha Dhanapala, a member of the BAS Board of Sponsors and a former UN undersecretary-general for disarmament affairs, said that while Russia-US nuclear relations were improving, others left much
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