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.

The minute hand moves closer to midnight at times of a heightened threat of a nuclear war and falls back when the threat abates. In the last 78 years, the clock has been advanced 18 times and ...

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. | ...

or "When will humans go extinct?" It catches distressed queries such as "doomsday clock 2022," "WW3," "probability of nuclear war," and "potassium iodide." The quality of what it gives back to you ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the clock to 89 seconds before midnight - the theoretical point of annihilation. That is one second closer than it was set last year. The Chicago-based ...

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 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 ...