The deteriorating state of global affairs has prompted the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – in consultation with a Board of Sponsors that includes 18 Nobel laureates – to move the minute hand of the “Doomsday Clock” from seven to five minutes to midnight.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Adjusts Clock From 7 to 5 Minutes Before Midnight;
“Deteriorating” Global Situation Cited on Nuclear Weapons and New Factor: Climate Change.

The United States will have no military equal in the twenty-first century, but her leaders must still manage her power skillfully, lest they alienate nations whose alliances she needs.