Growing concerns about a possible nuclear war and other global threats have pushed forward the symbolic Doomsday Clock by 30 seconds - to just two minutes before midnight. The Bulletin of the ...

The Doomsday Clock, a grim harbinger of global catastrophe, is ominously ticking closer to the stroke of midnight after a year marked by warfare, natural calamities, and political turmoil.

The "new abnormal" the world is facing from risks like nuclear war and climate change has led the symbolic Doomsday Clock to be frozen at the closest it has ever been to midnight. The clock ...

Each year, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists sets a “Doomsday Clock,” a def-con-eqsue metaphor that determines how close existing world conflicts are pushing Earth to the brink of no return.