It was a bleak outlook from The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a nonprofit organization that oversees the Doomsday Clock — a symbolic timepiece that represents humanity’s perceived proximity to a human-caused apocalypse.

They said humanity remains just two minutes from Armageddon, unchanged from last year’s unveiling of the Doomsday clock and remaining the closest it has inched to symbolic doom since 1953 in the height of the Cold War.

Citing nuclear arms races, threats of a cyber-attack and the ongoing climate change, the organization said the world is living in a “new abnormal.”

“There is nothing normal about the complex and frightening reality we are describing today,” said Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in a press release following the unveiling of the clock.

The Doomsday Clock is a visual metaphor for representing how close the world is to a potentially civilization-ending catastrophe.

Each year, the organization consults with a board of sponsors that includes 15 Nobel Laureates to analyze a wide array of threats — including nuclear risk, climate change and emerging technologies — to determine where the Doomsday Clock’s hands should be set.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 at the advent of the nuclear age and the group has maintained the Doomsday Clock since 1947.

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