Doomsday clock worst setting in 30 years

[Plane]

https://www.ecnmag.com/news/2016/01/scientists-doomsday-clock-reflects-grave-threat-world?cmpid=horizontalcontent



The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists member Lynn Eden, right, and editor-in-chief John Mecklin, second from right, unveil the "Doomsday Clock," which measures the likelihood of a global cataclysm, at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. Also pictured are former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, from left, former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry, Gov. Jerry Brown, and Jerry Seelig. The bulletin announced that the minute hand on the metaphorical clock remained at three minutes-to-midnight. The clock reflects how vulnerable the world is to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change and new technologies, with midnight symbolizing apocalypse. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

[Xavier_Onassis]

The picture says 5 minutes, the text says 3.
I question this, but it is just a metaphor.

[Plane]

The scientists behind the bulletin adjusted the clock from five minutes-to-midnight to three minutes-to-midnight last year. They cited climate change, modernization of nuclear weapons and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals as "extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity." The clock was previously at three minutes-to-midnight in 1984, when the bulletin said talks between the U.S. and Russia virtually stopped.

https://www.ecnmag.com/news/2016/01/scientists-doomsday-clock-reflects-grave-threat-world?cmpid=horizontalcontent

Yes, this looks like a mistake.

They must have picked the wrong photo.