The group devised the Doomsday Clock in 1947, as a way to symbolize how close and likely humanity is to catastrophe from man-made threats. The minute hand would ... the Berlin Wall and the Iron ...

Last year, the clock was set at 90 seconds to midnight. “Because the world is already perilously close to the precipice, a move of even a single second should be taken as an indication of ...

“In setting the Clock one second closer to midnight, we send a stark signal: Because the world is already perilously close to the precipice, a move of even a single second should be taken as an ...

For the first time in three years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the metaphorical clock up one second to 89 seconds ... The farthest the minute hand has been pushed back from the ...

"Because the world is already perilously close to the precipice, a move of even a single second should be taken as an indication ... The group devised the Doomsday Clock in 1947, as a way to symbolize ...

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 ...

Atomic scientists have moved the ‘Doomsday Clock’ a second ahead, bringing it closer ... The placement of the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock represents how close humanity is to self ...

(Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) It’s back and more ominous than ever: the Doomsday Clock has been moved one second further forward towards global catastrophe. This symbol of how close ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the symbolic Doomsday Clock at 89 seconds to midnight on Jan. 28.

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In a statement accompanying the annoucement, the Bulletin said: ‘In setting the Clock one second closer to midnight, we send a stark signal: Because the world is already perilously close to the ...