She set the original hands at seven minutes to midnight because "it looked good to my eye." The clock graced the cover of the 1947 Bulletin and has remained its iconic image ever since — even as ...
(NEXSTAR) – The Doomsday Clock ... is 89 seconds to “midnight” — midnight being a metaphorical representation of a global catastrophe. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images) “The battered ...
(Carl Wagner/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) In 1991, the Bulletin set the clock hand back to 17 minutes until midnight, gaining seven minutes after the Cold War was ...
The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history.