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

It is a bright Saturday, the crisp air of late February stubbornly holding onto winter’s cold. Before me, Union Square ...

The furthest from midnight the Doomsday Clock has ever been was 17 minutes to midnight in 1991, after the Cold War ended and a new arms treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union greatly reduced ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents ... in its hand-setting deliberations. The furthest the clock has been set was 17 minutes to midnight, in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union ...

Scientists have updated the "Doomsday ... clock focused specifically on the potential for nuclear war, since 1947 was the first year of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

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

In response to nuclear disarmament by both the United States and the Soviet Union, the time on the Doomsday Clock fell back from 10 minutes to midnight to 17 minutes to midnight. The minutes and ...

TASS/. The symbolic "Doomsday clock," which first appeared on the cover of the US’ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has been adjusted 10 seconds closer to the "nuclear midnight," the Bulletin ...

A new study investigated the mortality and mental health correlates of the iconic Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock. Results indicate the closer the Doomsday Clock ticks to ...