(NEXSTAR) – The Doomsday Clock, a concept designed by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to represent humanity’s proximity to a global catastrophe, might be “reset” on Tuesday.

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity is to self-destruction, due to nuclear weapons and climate change. The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ...

Learn how the Doomsday Clock serves as a potential indicator for health crises, including substance use disorders and ...

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 ...

"For these reasons, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has decided to move the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to catastrophe. It is now ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the clock to 89 seconds before midnight ... chair of the Bulletin's Science and Security Board. "Setting the Doomsday Clock at 89 seconds to midnight is a ...

The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic design created in 1947 by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to warn humanity "about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own ...

Scientists have moved the hands of the symbolic Doomsday Clock one second closer to "midnight," Daniel Holtz, Chairman of the Science and Safety Board of the US Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ...

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Since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) has used the metaphor of the Doomsday Clock as a means of communicating how close the human species is to self-imposed annihilation ...

This scene is rendered unforgettable by a depiction of the Doomsday Clock with its minute hand pointing at 15 seconds to midnight. In real life, the U.S. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset ...