By Greta Zarro
Just one month into a new decade, we face an ever-increasing risk of nuclear apocalypse. The U.S. government’s assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani on Jan. 3, intensified the very real threat of another all-out war in the Middle East. On Jan. 23, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists accordingly reset the Doomsday Clock to just 100 short seconds to midnight, apocalypse.
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