as the United States and the Soviet Union started a nuclear arms race. While assured mutual destruction via nuclear weapons is never not a threat, the Doomsday Clock has since expanded to consider ...

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic ... an analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Global Security ...

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.

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 ...