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Before January 2020, the two tied-for-lowest points for the Doomsday Clock were in 1953 (when the Clock was set to two minutes until midnight, after the U.S. and the Soviet Union began testing hydrogen bombs) and in 2018, following the failure of world leaders to address tensions relating to nuclear weapons and climate change issues. In other ...
The Doomsday clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight on Tuesday morning, putting it the closest the world has ever been to what scientists deem is "global catastrophe." ... This is the first time ...
In January 2023, the Doomsday Clock was set at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest to midnight it has ever been, in large part because of the nuclear threat posed by Russia’s war on Ukraine.
PHOTO: The Doomsday Clock is seen at 89 seconds to midnight, as set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board, at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, Jan. 28, 2025.
After the end of the Cold War, it was as close as 17 minutes to midnight. In the past few years, to address rapid global changes, the group has changed from counting down the minutes until midnight to counting down the seconds. The group said the clock could be turned back if leaders and nations worked together to address existential risks. ___
The Doomsday Clock was begun in 1947, as a metaphor for the danger that the world was facing. ... the closest the world had been to midnight came shortly after the clock’s founding, in the 1950s ...
The time on the symbolic clock was set at 90 seconds to midnight, the same as in 2023. Prior to that it had stood at 100 seconds to midnight, closer to destruction than at any point since it was ...
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.