A new TV show depicts a group of ordinary people who learn that an eight-mile wide comet is on a collision course with Earth and hunker beneath the town of Slough to watch the end of the world on television.

Art, it seems, is finding the themes spoke of by Amper.

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The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, scientists, formed after the Second World War and the threat of nuclear oblivion, said that nobody should take solace in the fact that humanity has moved no closer to oblivion.

The Bulletin says, among other things

“We, the members of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, want to be clear about our decision not to move the hands of the Doomsday Clock in 2016: That decision is not good news, but an expression of dismay that world leaders continue to fail to focus their efforts and the world’s attention on reducing the extreme danger posed by nuclear weapons and climate change.

“When we call these dangers existential, that is exactly what we mean: They threaten the very existence of civilization and therefore should be the first order of business for leaders who care about their constituents and their countries.”

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An article in the UK paper the Telegraph reported that Prof Stephen Hawking believes humanity is under threat, mainly of its own doing.

“We face a number of threats: nuclear war, global warming and genetically engineered viruses,” said Prof Hawking, speaking to the Radio Times ahead of his BBC Reith Lecture.‘

The professor added: “Science and technology are changing our world dramatically, so it’s important to ensure that these changes are heading in the right directions” .