Each year for the past 78 years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published a new Doomsday Clock, suggesting just how close – or far – humanity is to destroying itself. The next ...

The clock passed the two-minute threshold for the first time in 2020 as it was set to 100 seconds to midnight amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Russia and the U.S. and Iran and ...

In other words, the clock would only be out by one second if it ran for 30 billion years – that’s more than twice the current age of the universe. It’s pretty damn accurate, is what we’re ...