What is the Doomsday clock?

Now, you might consider adjusting your watches today, as the Doomsday clock is being updated to tell us how close we are to the end of the world But what does the clock actually mean and is there any chance of pushing it back?  We find out with SJ Beard, Senior research Associate at the Centre for the study of Existential Risk.

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