The only time the Doomsday Clock has been closer to midnight was in 1953, a year after hydrogen bombs were tested by the U.S. and Soviet Union in an escalating nuclear arms race.

The Doomsday Clock as of 2025. (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) Prior to the year 2000, the closest the Clock had ever come to midnight was 2 minutes, in 1953, just after the first hydrogen ...

The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, set at 89 seconds to midnight, is displayed during a news conference at the United States Institute of Peace, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025 ...

If climate change means runaway risk, at least in our lifetimes, they will eventually run out of time before tripping into “midnight.” There is an almost comic effect of counting doomsday by ...

Addressing climate change requires faith in institutions of multilateral governance. The geopolitical fissure opened by the invasion of Ukraine has weakened the global will to cooperate while ...

The clock isn’t designed to definitively measure existential threats, but rather to spark conversations about difficult scientific topics such as climate change, according to the Bulletin. The ...

Atomic scientists moved the ‘Doomsday Clock’ closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nuclear threats amid its invasion of Ukraine, military applications of AI and climate change as ...

Photo by Reuters/Shannon Stapleton. The last move the clock made was in 2012, from six to five minutes to midnight, again for climate change and nuclear proliferation.

Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock” to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ever been.

news Environment ‘Doomsday Clock’ moves closer to midnight amid climate change, nuclear war, pandemics, AI threats Group says world is on a precipice and in a dangerous place.

Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock” to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ever been. The Bulletin ...