President Trump’s blueprints to build a space-based missile defense shield could help him push for cuts in atomic weapons arsenals with Russia and other nuclear powers.

The Doomsday Clock, created in 1947 by atomic scientists as a way to keep track of the nuclear threat, is ticking closer to ...

Feb. 7, 2025 — New research using publicly-shared DNA barcodes and citizen science images have provided new evidence on the establishment and spread of a biological ...

Why not reduce nuclear arsenals from thousands into the hundreds, and divert savings toward fighting hunger and poverty?

Alexandra Bell is bringing more than a decade of experience in nuclear policy to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the ...

The Doomsday Clock has been used to examine the world’s vulnerability to global catastrophe for nearly a century.

In a statement outlining the change, the Board highlighted three main reasons for “moving the Doomsday Clock from 90 seconds ...

If humanity’s existence was a 24-hour clock where midnight represented the apocalypse, then the world is 89 seconds to ...

Atomic scientists moved their "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nuclear threats amid its ...

Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday ...

What Doomsday Clock reveals. Physicists like J. Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein were among its creators, who sought to ...