The clock is meant as a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic ...

When it was created in 1947, the placement of the Doomsday Clock was based on the threat posed by nuclear weapons, which Bulletin scientists considered to be the greatest danger to humanity. In 2007, ...

In his new book “Everything Must Go,” Dorian Lynskey recounts two millennia of apocalyptic predictions. Amazingly, it’s not ...

The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock: a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation, according to the Bulletin ...

With Donald Trump’s inauguration, the lame-duck period has finally ended, but another unnerving countdown is upon us. The ...

You can also watch the announcement on YouTube. On January 28th, the Bulletin's Science and Security Board (SASB) will reveal the 2025 Doomsday Clock time in Washington, DC. For 2025, the SASB will ...

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How do they know what time it is? The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists invented the Doomsday Clock soon after the end of World War II as a symbol of how close humanity is to midnight — or the ...

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, with the advice of Albert Einstein and other scientists from the Manhattan Project who ...

said on Thursday that the change was made due to nuclear proliferation, failure to tackle climate change and "cyber-based disinformation". The clock now stands at its closest to doomsday since it ...

In 2017, the science and security board moved the minute hand of the doomsday clock to 11:57:30, and saddled Trump with ... but noted Trump’s promises to impede what little progress has been made to ...

Honestly, with those uniform tics around the edge, it sort of reminds us of the doomsday clock — you ... with the technologies we’ve created. That clock is kind of cute, too, which is a ...