The 'Doomsday' That Matters

Fear God, not an imaginary clock powered by anxiety

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved up its metaphorical prediction for the end of the world by 10 more seconds on Jan. 24. The media organization’s Doomsday Clock now says mankind has only 90 figurative seconds left — the closest to calamity yet.

Scientists invented the clock soon after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, ending …