On January 23, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will be announcing the Doomsday Clock, giving citizens of the world a grim idea of just how close we really are to catastrophe. This clock has been ...

Since 1947, the Doomsday Clock has measured the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe. The time set on the clock is a metaphor for how close the world is to an international disaster, with ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist will reveal today (January 23) the latest iteration of its annual Doomsday Clock countdown. At a press conference in Washington DC, US, former world leaders and ...

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, the clock ...

Currently at 'three minutes to midnight', the Doomsday Clock already sends a message that mankind is closer to oblivion than it has been in decades - and it's about to change. The famous clock moves ...

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