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 ...

The farthest the clock has been to midnight was 17 minutes in 1991 after ... despite average global temperatures surpassing the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit set by the agreement for the first time ...

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.

This was the closest to midnight the Clock was ever set in the 20th Century ... based ballistic missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500km (312 to 3,416 miles) and saw 2,692 nuclear missiles ...

It was a time when the Cold War was at its height – the Doomsday Clock near midnight – and the doomed War on Drugs was raging. The science around genetically modified organisms was in its infancy.