(NEXSTAR) – The Doomsday Clock, a concept designed by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to represent humanity’s proximity ...

STUDY: Nuclear war between US, Russia would leave 5 billion dead from hunger ... was set at 7 minutes to midnight. What will the Doomsday Clock be set to on Jan. 24, 2023? The Doomsday Clock ...

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 ...

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.