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The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history. Here's a look at how — and why — it's moved.
The Doomsday Clock, which has been used to examine the world’s vulnerability to global catastrophe for nearly a century, has moved one second closer to midnight. On Jan. 28, the Bulletin of the ...
The hands of the clock were moved closer to the "midnight" hour – which means ultimate destruction – this week. The clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it's ever been.
The group started the Doomsday Clock two years later. The Clock's original setting in 1947 was seven minutes to midnight. It has since been set backward eight times and forward 18 times.
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The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, set at 89 seconds to midnight, is displayed during a news conference at the United States Institute of Peace, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025 ...
In 2017, the board moved the clock from three minutes to midnight, to two and a half minutes to midnight. The furthest the clock has been from midnight is 17 minutes in 1991.
On Jan. 28, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock one second closer to midnight, closer than ever before in its 78-year history, to 89 seconds before midnight in 2025 from ...