[kbutler]

2 minutes to midnight in 2018:

"The world has seen the threat posed by the misuse of information technology and witnessed the vulnerability of democracies to disinformation."

2 minutes to midnight in 1953:

"from Moscow to Chicago, atomic explosions will strike midnight for Western civilization."

https://thebulletin.org/timeline

Are they being secretly ironic, giving an example of "fake news"? (To be fair, the longer statement is more detailed than their summary.)