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 now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history.

The world might be falling to pieces, but at least we’re counting down to doom in style. The Doomsday Clock is perhaps the ...

This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The ...

In 2007, the Bulletin began including catastrophic disruptions from climate change in its hand-setting deliberations. The furthest the clock has been set was 17 minutes to midnight, in 1991, after the ...

Over the past seven decades, the clock has been adjusted forward and backward multiple times. The farthest the minute hand has been pushed back from the cataclysmic midnight hour was 17 minutes in ...

All those decades ago, the clock was set at 7 minutes to midnight. By 1949, the threat of nuclear war had ramped up considerably, bringing the clock's minute hand within three ticks of 12. By 1991, ...

The science that guides the Doomsday Clock, which represents how close humanity is to global catastrophe, has been moved to ...

A man seemingly trapped inside a clock repaints the minute and the hour hands in a cool clock outside Paddington Station in London (January 30). The figure appears as he scrubs out and redraws the ...

In 2025 the famous Doomsday Clock is reading “89 seconds to midnight.” What does “89 seconds to midnight” say about our world and for its future?

The Doomsday Clock, created in 1947 by atomic scientists as a way to keep track of the nuclear threat, is ticking closer to ...

Leonard Rieser, chairman of the board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, moves the hand of the Doomsday Clock back to 17 minutes before midnight on Nov. 26, 1991. (Carl Wagner/Chicago ...