Essentially everything, according to the 2025 Doomsday Clock statement. “In 2024, humanity edged ever closer to catastrophe. Trends that ...
For the first time in three years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock forward by one second.
In January 2024, the clock was set at 90 seconds to midnight, the same as it was in 2023. This is the first time the clock has moved forward since 2023. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists tracks ...
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shifted the hands of the symbolic clock to 89 seconds to midnight, citing the threat of ...
In a statement outlining the change, the Board highlighted three main reasons for “moving the Doomsday Clock from 90 seconds ...
In 2017 it was moved to two-and-a-half minutes to midnight, and then in 2020 it was moved to 100 seconds. This is the first time the clock has been moved by a second. “The factors shaping this y ...
The Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which runs the clock, decided to move the clock one second closer to midnight because of climate change, nuclear threats and biological hazards.
The clock was initially set at seven minutes to midnight and has moved 25 times since then. It can move backwards and ...
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – the group that sets the time of the clock, which is intended to show the chance of annihilation from a range of threats – said that it was moving the clock ...