It measures our collective peril in minutes and seconds to midnight, and we don't want to strike 12. In 2023, the expert ...

Ryabkov stated, "I would say the clock is currently showing something like two minutes to midnight, but this does not mean ...

it sort of reminds us of the doomsday clock — you know, the ‘minutes to midnight’ quarter clock face that shows the current perceived threat level of how close we are to destroying the world ...

In 1947, just two years after the end of WWII, a group of Manhattan Project scientists, including Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer, created the Doomsday Clock. It’s a metaphor, not a ...

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 scientists placed the hands of the 1947 clock at seven minutes to midnight. Since then it has moved closer to and farther away from midnight, depending on world events. In the early days of the ...

The Doomsday Clock first appeared on the cover of the bulletin in 1947, when it showed the planet had only “seven minutes to midnight.” When the former Soviet Union developed atomic bombs in ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity is to self-destruction, due to nuclear weapons and climate change. The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ...