Washington Free Beacon senior editor Bill Gertz on Thursday dismissed the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' "Doomsday Clock," which measures how close humanity is to annihilation, and said the world is not near the apocalypse on "CBS This Morning."
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is supposed to update its clock on Thursday. The closer they move the minute hand to midnight, the sooner they say the apocalypse will occur.
Gertz was asked by CBS correspondent Kris Van Cleave if he was going to lose any sleep over the Doomsday Clock and the possibility that it may indicate the apocalypse is nearer.
"No, I'm not going to lose any sleep," Gertz said. "I don't think we're near an apocalypse."
Gertz dismissed the clock as more of a political instrument than an actual indication of where the world stands.
"In a lot of ways, the doomsday clock is being used by the liberal left to try to promote its agenda for nuclear disarmament, for greater efforts to control climate change and other elements," Gertz explained.
