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.

prompting researchers to set the Doomsday Clock forward from 107 to 90 seconds (1.5 minutes) before midnight in early 2023. As this chart shows, 1953 was also considered a year of heightened ...

In 1947, the Doomsday Clock was set at 7 minutes to midnight. The clock functions as a call-to-action to find ways to resolve “the world’s most urgent, man-made existential threats” and move ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists made the annual announcement — which rates how close humanity is from ending — citing ...

Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock” to ... was as close as 17 minutes to midnight.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has just announced its latest nuclear Doomsday Clock moving ahead the minute hand to three minutes till midnight. The clock represents the count down to zero in ...

The group started the Doomsday Clock two years later. The Clock's original setting in 1947 was seven minutes to midnight. It has since been set backward eight times and forward 18 times.

moves the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock to two minutes to midnight in January 2018. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by a group of Chicago-based scientists who had worked ...

WASHINGTON — Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock ... close as 17 minutes to midnight.