The metaphorical clock measures how close humanity is to self-destruction, because of nuclear disaster, climate change, AI ...

Over the last century, the dangers threatening humanity have evolved with rapid scientific and technological progress.

Results indicate that the closer the Doomsday Clock ticks to midnight, the higher the rates are for mortality specific to ...

Project 2025 opens the door to above-ground detonations, which were banned in 1963. We can’t endanger our children again. | ...

President Donald Trump said that “monster” nuclear weapons could “end the world” tomorrow that that atomic holocaust is the ...

Former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, second from left, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists member Robert Socolow, second from right, reveal the Doomsday Clock, set at 89 seconds to ...

"Through the Cold War, it [the clock] gave the broader public a sense of how close to nuclear annihilation we were. Today, it represents an unprecedented level of existential danger." The present ...

The expression “x minutes to midnight” is associated with the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic representation of how far (or near) ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock — a measure of how close the world is to nuclear war — is at just 89 seconds, the lowest in the atomic age, well below the 17-minute ...

The clock had stood at 90 seconds to midnight ... Russia President Vladimir Putin has also talked about using nuclear weapons in his war against Ukraine. “A lot of the rhetoric is very ...