The Chicago-based nonprofit announced today the decision to advance its Doomsday Clock closer to midnight by 30 seconds. The clock is now two minutes to midnight, the symbolic hour of imminent doom.

Top nuclear experts gathered in Chicago to offer world leaders a playbook for reducing the risk of nuclear war.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has issued a new warning that the nuclear "Doomsday Clock" is ticking closer to midnight, with "commonplace" talk of World War III.. He claimed Russia was ...

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The Doomsday Clock, a composite warning signal formulated by many noted scientists, is now showing we are 89 seconds from midnight, the time representing how close we are as a species to extinction.

In the 55 years since its creation, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) has endured many challenges, but the world now finds itself at a reckoning point. The Doomsday Clock is set at 89 seconds ...