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Doomsday clock ticks down, closest ever to "global catastrophe" ... the clock was set at 90 seconds to midnight, the same as it was in 2023. ... This man is pushing 50 with a net worth of $9.4M ...
The Clock was moved to 150 seconds (2 minutes, 30 seconds) in 2017, then forward to 2 minutes to midnight in 2018, and left unchanged in 2019. [6] It was moved forward to 100 seconds (1 minute, 40 seconds) in 2020, [7] 90 seconds (1 minute, 30 seconds) in 2023, [8] and 89 seconds (1 minute, 29 seconds) in 2025. [9]
The symbolic clock now reads 89 seconds to midnight after advancing one second since last year's reset. It is now the closest to midnight since the introduction of the clock in 1947.
For the last two years, it has been at 90 seconds – itself already closer than ever before. The Doomsday Clock was begun in 1947, as a metaphor for the danger that the world was facing.
The second verge pendulum clock built by Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, 1673. Huygens claimed an accuracy of 10 seconds per day. In a pendulum clock, the verge escapement is turned 90 degrees so that the crown wheel faces up (top).
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A list of permanent working clocks with the largest faces in the world. Entries include all clocks with faces at least 4 m (13 ft) in diameter. Clocks can be located on the exterior or interior of buildings, and towers as well as on the ground as is the case with floral clock faces.
The Doomsday Clock has moved closer to midnight than it has ever been, and is now just 90 seconds away from striking 12, scientists have said.