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The Doomsday Clock is a icon of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazine. Simply put, it notes how close humanity is to "midnight," AKA catastrophic destruction. Currently, the world is at five minutes to midnight. The closest the Clock has come to "midnight" was two minutes away in 1953.

Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to create a scenario which causes the Doomsday Clock to move as close as possible to the figurative midnight. For example, write a series of PODs and butterflies that has the Suez Crisis turn ugly or have Russia go crazy in the Caucasus. Make sure the world comes very close to destruction but is able to barely avoid it.
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