The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity is to self-destruction, due to nuclear weapons and climate change. The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ...

Humanity is closer than ever to catastrophe, according to the atomic scientists behind the Doomsday ... to a Manhattan Project physicist — sketched out a few ideas, including a clock counting ...

The official Doomsday Clock has now been moved to 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been since its introduction in 1947.

The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than ever before. What does it mean? How is this determined? Can the clock be wound ...

Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project. The Bulletin created the Doomsday Clock two years later to convey man ...

The Doomsday Clock was reset to 89 seconds ... "The scientists, however, wanted to inform the public." Dr Langsdorf Jr worked on the Manhattan Project, a top-secret World War II program involving ...

Langsdorf — who was married to a Manhattan Project physicist — sketched out a few ideas, including a clock ... proliferation. Dr. Leonard Rieser, chairman of the board of the Bulletin of the Atomic ...

Langsdorf — who was married to a Manhattan ... Dr. Leonard Rieser, chairman of the board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, moves the hand of the Doomsday Clock back to 17 minutes before ...