Explaining why it has moved its Doomsday Clock to 100 seconds before midnight, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has turned itself into a total joke.

The Bulletin crew say we’re now closer to the apocalypse than at any point since the clock was first created in 1947. They should all resign their positions and fold the Bulletin. After all, the risk of annihilation was far greater during the Cold War than it is in 2020. There are two specific problems with the Bulletin’s explanation for its latest clock shift.