After the US and Soviet Union became capable of Mutually Assured Destruction, safeguards were put in place to prevent World ...

A children's homework question has left adults scratching their heads as they try to work out the 'closest time to midnight' ...

Once a staple in Dallas and Fort Worth, fallout shelters now are hard to find, reflecting a bygone era of Cold War fears amid ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the time at 89 seconds to midnight – the closest it has ever been. The Doomsday ... the clock was originally set at seven minutes to midnight.

Humanity is closer than ever to catastrophe, according to the atomic scientists behind the Doomsday ... clock to signify urgency," she later wrote. She set the original hands at seven minutes to ...

Robert Rosner, chairman of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, moves the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock to two minutes to midnight in January 2018. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was ...

The artist first set the Doomsday Clock to seven minutes until midnight because “it looked good to my eye,” she said. After the clock concept was established, Bulletin editor Eugene ...