WATCH THE END OF THE WORLD OR THE APOCALYPSE.

WATCH THE END OF THE WORLD OR THE APOCALYPSE. 

This watch doomsday or apocalypse, is in the US University of Chicago and is run by 17 atomic scientists to measure the amount of risk a nuclear war or global catastrophe that extinguished the human race this doomsday clock or watch the apocalypse is fast or slow at 12: 00-PM The closer to the 12: 00-PM more risk there for the destruction of mankind.

THE END OF THE WORLD CLOCK. 

HISTORY OF THE WATCH THE END OF THE WORLD.

11: 50-PM (1947) 

counting the Doomsday Clock starts 

11:57-PM (1949) 

The President Harry Truman tells the American people that the USSR tested its first nuclear device, fact denied by the Soviet Union . This made ​​the "arms race" officially begins. 

11: 58-PM (1953) 

After intense debate, the US. UU. decide to develop the hydrogen bomb. United States tested its first thermonuclear device in October 1952, deleting a Pacific islet called Eniwetok. Nine months later, the Soviet Union developed and tested their own bomb H. 

11: 53-PM (1960) 

For the first time the US and USSR agree to avoid a direct confrontation in regional conflicts, such as that faced Egypt and Israel in 1956 the celebration of the International Geophysical Year, with the collaboration of scientists from the two powers is established. 

11: 53-PM (1962)

The discovery by US bases Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuban territory resulted in the Crisis Cuba missile, which ended with an agreement after thirteen intense days. Still being considered this as the most dangerous time for humanity lived, the clock stood at seven minutes to midnight, as the climax and resolution of the crisis occurred before in 'Bulletin' could meet to set the time . 

11: 48-PM (1963)

After a decade of uninterrupted nuclear test, the US and the Soviet Union sign the Treaty of Partial Nuclear Test Ban, which stops all outdoor test, but not underground tests. It also warns of the collaboration between both powers to prevent nuclear annihilation. 

11: 53-PM (1968) 

The Vietnam War intensifies. India-Pakistan conflict since 1965. Conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors in 1967. China and France develop nuclear weapons to position themselves as global powers. 

11: 50-PM (1969)

 Almost all world countries agree to sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons . Only refuse to sign it Israel, India and Pakistan. 

11: 48-PM (1972) 

US and the USSR slow down their arms race by signing the "Treaty of Strategic Arms Limitation" (SALT) and the "ABM Treaty" (ABM). SALT limits the number of ballistic missile launchers each country can possess and the ABM Treaty career slows the development of defensive weaponry. 

11: 51-PM (1974)

India tested its first nuclear device. USA and USSR modernize nuclear force. Thanks to weapons development, both powers can recharge their Intercontinental ballistic missiles with more nuclear warheads than before 

 11: 53-PM (1980)

35 years after the beginning of the nuclear era, the US and USSR continue thinking that nuclear weapons are essential to their national security. 

11: 56-PM (1981)

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan hardens US position. US boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Jimmy Carter hardens its nuclear stance against the USSR, but fails, thanks to Ronald Reagan, new President of the USA. 

11: 57-PM (1984)

The US-Soviet diplomatic relations are at their lowest point in decades. Dialogue between the two superpowers is interrupted. The Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. The world fears an acceleration of the arms race. 

11: 54-PM (1988) 

The US and USSR sign the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Good understanding between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. 

11: 50-PM (1990)

One after another, all the countries of Eastern Europe became independent of Soviet control Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Supreme Soviet, it does not intervene. In late 1989 falls Berlin Wall. 

11: 43-PM (1991)

After the end of the Cold War, the US and Russia are committed to dismantle much of its nuclear arsenal. 

11: 47-PM (1995)

restlessness within the US following the dismantling of the USSR. Problems in several of the former republics of the USSR. Existence of an arsenal of 40,000 nuclear warheads. Much uncontrolled nuclear material in the former USSR. 

11: 51-PM (1998)

India and Pakistan carried out nuclear weapons testing various turning them into successive demonstrations of power and warning between both countries. US and Russia have trouble following dismantling their nuclear arsenals. 

11: 53-PM (2002) 

little progress in global nuclear disarmament is achieved. United States rejects a series of arms control treaties and announces its intention to withdraw from the ABM Treaty. Concern about the possibility of a nuclear terrorist attack because of the amount of weapons and nuclear material are not under control and unaccounted for everyone. 

11: 55-PM (2007) 

North Korea tested its nuclear weapons. US renews their enthusiasm for the military use of nuclear weapons. It has not been able to ensure the security of nuclear materials. There are still about 26,000 nuclear weapons in the United States and Russia. Expert analysts of the dangers to civilization have added climate change to the prospect of nuclear annihilation as the greatest threats to mankind. 

11: 54-PM (2010)

 global cooperation to reduce the nuclear arsenal and promises to limit emissions of climate change gases. 

11: 55-PM (2012) 

will be more than 2,500 nuclear weapons on the planet. 

11: 55-PM (2014)

There have been efforts to reduce Russian and US nuclear threat They maintain large nuclear arsenals, while countries like India, Pakistan and China could increase its stockpile of nuclear weapons. Possible expansion of the "nuclear club" 4.

11: 57-PM (2015)

The modernization of nuclear weapons and increasing in these nations and Middle East represent an undeniable threat to the existence of mankind.