Add to that, the fact since Threads first aired on tv, NASA and other countries Space programs Still have no way of deflecting a life ending asteroid from hitting earth.
"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

Well, times has changed.
They keep fiddling with that clock any time
anything
happens these days, I think they also use it for a political purpose.
These days, it's the environment along with the war in Syria, terror, Trump and whatnot.it has become more of a indicator of the scientific communities political views and not the impending doom of the world as we know it.
Sadly.