科學家撥快末日鍾 距離世界末日僅2.5分鐘

Scientists say the world has edged closer to apocalypse in the past year amid a darkening security landscape and comments by Donald Trump.

科學家們表示，過去一年，隨着暗淡的安全環境和唐納德·特朗普的言論，世界已經逐漸接近末日。

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BPA) moved the minute hand of the symbolic Doomsday Clock from three minutes to two-and-a-half minutes to midnight.

《原子科學家公報》將象徵性的末日時鐘的分針從距離午夜3分鐘移動到2.5分鐘。

BPA chief Rachel Bronson urged world leaders to "calm rather than stoke tensions that could lead to war".

《原子科學家公報》的執行長雷切爾·布朗森敦促世界領導人“平緩而不是加劇可能導致戰爭的緊張局勢”。

In a report, the BPA said President Trump's statements on climate change, expanding the US nuclear arsenal and the questioning of intelligence agencies had contributed to the heightened global risk.

在一份報告中，《原子科學家公報》表示，特朗普總統關於氣候變化、擴大美國核武庫和情報機構問題的聲明，導致了全球風險的加劇。

It is the closest the clock has come to midnight since 1953, when the minute hand was moved to two minutes away following hydrogen bomb tests by the US and Russia.

這是自1953年來時鐘最接近午夜的一次，上一次是美國和俄羅斯的氫彈試驗，分針移動到距離午夜僅兩分鐘。

The minute hand on the Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how vulnerable to catastrophe the world is deemed to be.

在“末日鍾”上的分針是對世界性災難的一個隱喻。

The symbolic device was created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947. The BPA was founded at the University of Chicago in 1945 by a group of scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons.

這個標誌性設備是由《原子科學家公報》組織在1947年創建的。該組織是由一羣科學家於1945年在芝加哥大學成立的，他們當時幫助開發了第一個原子武器。