The Chicago-based nonprofit announced today the decision to advance its Doomsday Clock closer to midnight by 30 seconds. The clock is now two minutes to midnight, the symbolic hour of imminent doom.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists reset the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight for the second year in a row, matching the closest to the hour it’s ever been.

Earlier this year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that it was moving the hands of the Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds before midnight, a symbolic hour signifying global catastrophe. The ...

MANILA, Philippines—The Doomsday Clock’s hands inch forward, now frozen at 89 seconds to midnight — the closest they have ever been to global catastrophe. A mere second separates us from ...

The clock is currently set at just 89 seconds to midnight. It is high time we set up a political version of the Doomsday Clock. Major political parties in Britain rarely die. Their fortunes ebb ...

Date: Monday, April 28, 2025 Time: 3:00-4:15 pm EDT Location: United Nations Headquarters (Conference Room A) In the 55 years since its creation, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) has endured ...

Symbolic clock is currently set at 5 minutes to midnight. Jan. 14, 2010— -- Is humanity approaching an apocalypse? Today, a group of international scientists will move the hands of the ...

ASHGABAT, June 25. /TASS/. As the Doomsday Clock edges ever closer to midnight, Russia is racing to pull the hands back by working to avert nuclear catastrophe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey ...