April 11, 2023
I’m not a TikTok person.
I’m too old. But when I finally ventured onto that popular but much-maligned
app, which traffics in short videos and hot takes, I was surprised to find many
videos about the Doomsday Clock. It’s nothing like a conventional timepiece, of
course. It’s meant to show how close humanity has come to nuclear Armageddon —
to the proverbial “midnight.”