The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history. Here's a look at how — and why — it's moved.

What happens when the Doomsday clock hits midnight? When the Doomsday Clock strikes midnight, that’s it. The lights are out, and no one is coming to turn them back on.

When was the Doomsday Clock farthest from midnight? In 1991, with the end of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first treaty to ...

Atomic scientists reset the Doomsday Clock on Tuesday, moving its hands to 90 seconds to midnight - closer than ever before to the threat of annihilation.

Each year for the past 78 years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published a new Doomsday Clock, suggesting just how close – or far – humanity is to destroying itself. The next ...

WASHINGTON -- Atomic scientists on Tuesday kept their "Doomsday Clock" set as close to midnight as ever before, citing Russia's actions on nuclear weapons amid its invasion of Ukraine, nuclear-armed ...

The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic tracker that represents the likelihood of human-made destruction, was updated Tuesday to 90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it’s ever been ...

The Doomsday Clock located in the United States was 100 seconds before midnight symbolizing the "apocalyptic" moment, thus marking 23:58:20, the same time as 2020, according to the Bulletin of ...

But on the other hand, the Doomsday Clock is not a formally constructed ritual or device of the state and is, in many ways, an accidental cultural artifact.

The symbolic Doomsday Clock — designed by scientists to measure how close the world is to an apocalypse — has been reset to 90 seconds to midnight.

The Doomsday Clock will be reset Jan. 24. Historically, the clock has measured danger from nuclear war, but it now includes other perils.