Minute Added to the “Doomsday Clock”

Well the originators of the “Doomsday Clock”, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists are feeling optimistic this week!
My guess is this is not your average jolly bunch of academics. They may not habitually be a pessimistic bunch, but that is just my assumption.

In a symbolic gesture reflecting how close humanity teeters on the edge of destruction, scientists turned the hand of the "Doomsday Clock" back one minute on Thursday in New York, citing a more "hopeful state of world affairs."

For the first time in two years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists changed the setting of the symbolic time piece, moving the clock to six minutes to midnight from five to midnight.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) was founded in 1945 by former Manhattan Project scientists troubled by their role in the creation of atomic weapons. In 1947, they created the Doomsday Clock to mobilize support against the use of nuclear weapons.