Last week, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock -10 seconds, largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine. The Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight – the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.
That same day, a panelist on Russia 1's 60 Minutes recommended that Russia abandon the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and resume testing nuclear weapons as a “warning shot” to NATO that Russia is serious about their potential use of nuclear weapons as part of their war on Ukraine.
This analysis is part of an ongoing collaboration between the Internet Archive and its TV News Archive, the multi-party Media-Data Research Consortium and GDELT.