Doomsday Clock through the Years

Doomsday Clock moves closest ever to midnight

The Doomsday Clock has never been closer to metaphorical midnight. What does it mean?

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history. Here's a look at how — and why — it's moved.

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Doomsday Clock Moves to 89 Seconds: The Closest Humanity Has Ever Been to Armageddon

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has reset the iconic Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds to midnight. For the second consecutive year, it is the closest the world has ever been to global catastrophe. Created in 1947 by a group of researchers that included Albert Einstein and J.

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The Doomsday Clock is now just 89 seconds from midnight. Here's why

On Tuesday morning, the Doomsday Clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight, which is the closest it has ever been to midnight in the 78 years since it started running. So what has set off the historic change? Essentially everything, according to the 2025 Doomsday Clock statement.

The Doomsday Clock has been updated to just 89 seconds until a civilization-ending disaster

On January 28, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists updated the Doomsday Clock from 90 to 89 seconds until "midnight," as world-ending threats continue escalating at ...

Doomsday Clock set at 89 seconds to midnight, representing threat to human existence and the planet

The Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which runs the clock, decided to move the clock one second closer to ...

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‘Doomsday Clock’ moves closer to midnight amid threats of climate change, nuclear war, pandemics, AI

A science-oriented advocacy group says the Earth is moving closer to destruction. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said ...

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How close is humanity to self-destruction? Doomsday Clock will reveal how bad things are.

The Doomsday Clock is set each year by the members of the Bulletin ... viruses to make them more dangerous would. From the 1950s through the 1980s the threat of nuclear war felt imminent.

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'Sleepwalking into nuclear disaster': The 'Doomsday Clock' ticks forward

The metaphorical clock measures how close humanity is to self-destruction, because of nuclear disaster, climate change, AI ...

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