"Putin was threatening to use nuclear weapons [in Ukraine.]" The first clock, announced in 1947, was set a full 7 minutes to midnight. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: How close is ...

Scientists and global leaders revealed on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" has been reset to the closest humanity has ever come to self-annihilation.

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 ...

Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock two ...

It was then that Langsdorf switched her design from the uranium symbol to a clock to convey there’s not much time to get it under control. The artist first set the Doomsday Clock to seven ...

D.C. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images When first introduced, the clock was set at seven minutes to midnight. Over the decades, it has been adjusted 25 times, reflecting the fluctuating levels of ...

The clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight ... It was founded by University of Chicago scientists who had helped develop the first nuclear weapons for the Manhattan Project, and has been ...

Existential risk researcher SJ Beard explains. I first became aware of the Doomsday Clock at school in the mid-1990s when a teacher introduced it to me. She told my class about the grand sweep of ...

The group was founded two years earlier by University of Chicago scientists who had helped develop the first nuclear weapons for the Manhattan Project. Historically, the ominous clock measured the ...