PREVIEW BY BENJAMIN COOK
‘Humanity has not been this close to oblivion since the darkest early days of the Cold War, a team of scientists concluded yesterday. The scholars who control the Doomsday Clock, a 70-year-old device warning of impending apocalypse, nudged it forward 30 seconds. The hands now stand at two-and-a-half minutes to midnight.’
The Times, 27 January 2017