For the year the minute hand of "doomsday clock" has not moved neither forward nor backward. In 2015, scientists have found that until the end of time remains three minutes, in 2016 they have decided not to translate arrows: climate change, nuclear threats and new technologies — up to midnight, which symbolizes a nuclear disaster, remains three minutes, reports The Telegraph.

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For the year the minute hand of "doomsday clock" has not moved neither forward nor backward. In 2015, scientists have found that until the end of time remains three minutes, in 2016 they have decided not to translate arrows: climate change, nuclear threats and new technologies — up to midnight, which symbolizes a nuclear disaster, remains three minutes, reports The Telegraph.

the Appropriate clock has been published in the Chicago "Bulletin of scientists working in the nuclear industry," which since 1947 engaged in the countdown minutes before the end of the world. Scientists believe that the situation is very tense. Albeit have also made progress on Iran's nuclear program and the fight against global warming, but not enough to roll the metaphorical "back" arrows.

the Level of tension in the world remains the highest in the last 30 years. In 1984, the minute hand was three minutes from midnight due to the escalation of the arms race. Similar and even greater level of danger of nuclear cataclysm was recorded in 1949 when the USSR tested its first nuclear bomb, and in 1953, when both the USSR and USA with a difference 9 months has tested thermonuclear bombs. In the latter case, the hands of the "doomsday clock" stopped at two minutes before midnight.

According to nuclear physicists, the most peaceful years in the history of mankind can be considered the beginning of the 90s, when the "doomsday clock" was 23:43, and between the USSR and the U.S. signed the Treaty on reducing strategic arms. However, subsequent "brain drain" and nuclear technology from the former Soviet Union, nuclear tests by India and Pakistan forced the minute hand to move forward again.

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