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.

The Doomsday Clock goes back to June 1947, when US artist Martyl Langsdorf was hired to design a new cover for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists journal. With a striking image on the cover ...

Artist Martyl Langsdorf was commissioned to design a new cover for the Bulletin of the ... moves the hand of the Doomsday Clock back to 17 minutes before midnight on Nov. 26, 1991.

Why not reduce nuclear arsenals from thousands into the hundreds, and divert savings toward fighting hunger and poverty?

Martyl Langsdorf, an artist and wife of physicist Alexander Langsdorf Jr. who worked on the Manhattan Project, designed the Doomsday Clock for the Bulletin’s first magazine cover in June 1947.

The Doomsday Clock goes back to June 1947, when US artist Martyl Langsdorf was hired to design a new cover for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists journal. With a striking image on the cover ...

This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The ...

The voices of those of us who have already suffered the devastating and ongoing effects of nuclear weapons must be integral ...

The Doomsday clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight on ... and Russia have the prime responsibility to pull the world back from the brink. The world depends on immediate action." ...

The clock graced the cover of the 1947 Bulletin and has remained ... moves the hand of the Doomsday Clock back to 17 minutes before midnight at offices near the University of Chicago on Nov ...