Comment reflects political environment, more like it (Score 1) 145
It's more that the clock reflects the current global political climate.
Ie when Pakistan and India, both nuclear powers, are duking it out, the clock goes closer to midnight.
I strongly suspect that the announcement is due to strong rhetoric from russian leadership - I believe recently either Putin or one of his lackeys declared that they could "raze" the US. There's also been increasingly aggressive "patrols" by Russian bombers along the US and Europe, the recent sub incident in Sweden, and of course the invasion of Ukraine.