The Carter administration thinks about ways in which the United States could win a nuclear war. President Jimmy Carter boycotts the United States from the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. The Soviet war in Afghanistan toughens the U.S. Senate does not ratify the SALT II agreement. Talks between American and Soviet leaders stop as the Soviet–Afghan War begins. Both the United States and the Soviet Union modernize multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs). India tests a nuclear device, and SALT II talks stop. The United States and the Soviet Union sign the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) and the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. France and China begin nuclear testingĮvery nation in the world, except for India, Israel, and Pakistan, signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War intensifies, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 takes place, and the Six-Day War occurs in 1967. The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Partial Test Ban Treaty, limiting atmospheric nuclear testing. With scientists agreeing that a nuclear war would be fatal to humanity, both the United States and Soviet Union work to avoid a nuclear war This was the clock's closest approach to midnight (tied in 2018) until 2020. The United States tests its first thermonuclear weapon in November 1952 with the Soviets doing a similar test. The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, the RDS-1, officially starting the nuclear arms race. The lower points on the graph show a higher probability of a human-made global disaster, and the higher points show a lower chance of it happening. Timeline Doomsday Clock graph, 1947–2020. In 20, the clock's time was unchanged, staying at 100 seconds before midnight. On January 23, 2020, the Clock was moved further, to 100 seconds (1 minute 40 seconds) before midnight, meaning that the Clock's status today is the closest to midnight since the Clock's start in 1947. The main reasons why the clock would change its times are nuclear risk and climate change. When the clock hits midnight, it means that a global event that would harm humanity is near. The clock shows how close the world is to a global catastrophe as a number of minutes or seconds to midnight, changed in January of each year. The clock is a metaphor for threats to humanity. Kept going since 1947 by the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likely possibility of human-caused threat to humanity and possible extinction or non-reversable damage. How the clock would look like when its midnight meaning the possible end of humanity
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