The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history.
The clock was initially set at seven minutes to midnight and has moved 25 times since then. It can move backwards and forwards, with movement away from midnight showing that people can make positive ...
The clock is meant as a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic ...
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shifted the hands of the symbolic clock to 89 seconds to midnight, citing the threat of ...
The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how close the world is to being inhabitable for humanity. Scientists just set the new ...
The setting of the clock has jumped forward and back over the past 78 years, depending on world events. The furthest from midnight it has ever been was in 1991, when it was set at 17 minutes to ...