Doomsday Clock

The world is perilously closer to catastrophe than it has ever been as nuclear weapon use, climate change, and future risk of pandemics pose a threat.

“We are sending a message that the situation is becoming more urgent,” Bulletin President Rachel Bronson said at the online announcement. The advocacy group started in 1947 to use a clock to symbolise the potential and likelihood of people doing something to end humanity. “Putin has given no indication that he's willing to accept defeat,” Fetter said. “We are really closer to that doomsday,” former Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia said on January 24 at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ annual announcement rating how close humanity is from doing itself in. It's been as much as 17 minutes from midnight after the end of the Cold War but in the past few years, the group has changed from counting down the minutes to midnight to counting down the seconds. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the specter of nuclear weapon use, Earth crept its closest to Armageddon, a science-oriented advocacy group said, moving its famous “Doomsday Clock” up to just 90 seconds before midnight.

“Russia's thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict—by accident, intention, or miscalculation—is a terrible ...

[science and security board](https://thebulletin.org/about-us/science-and-security-board/) of the [Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists](https://thebulletin.org/). Yesterday, the 22-member group [moved the Doomsday Clock – as a metaphor to indicate how near we are to a humanity-ending catastrophe ](https://thebulletin.org/2023/01/press-release-doomsday-clock-set-at-90-seconds-to-midnight/) [–](https://thebulletin.org/2023/01/press-release-doomsday-clock-set-at-90-seconds-to-midnight/) [ forward by 10 seconds](https://thebulletin.org/2023/01/press-release-doomsday-clock-set-at-90-seconds-to-midnight/). The latest move marks the closest point to midnight since the clock was set up in 1947 where it began at 23:53.

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.

TRENDING More than 75 years ago, it began ticking at seven minutes to midnight. A hypothetical global catastrophe is represented by midnight on the clock. The possibility that the conflict could spin out of anyone’s control remains high." The Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been." It's currently the closest it has ever been to midnight.

In the face of existential threats facing humanity, there can be no choice but to act. Political leaders must work cooperatively and urgently to deliver a ...

World leaders must seize the initiative and deliver for their people. Strong global political leadership is required from heads of state and governments to implement the recommendations of recent independent panels into Covid-19. Nelson Mandela remains for me the exemplar of bold and ethical leadership. None will be overcome by the hollow promises of populism or naively utopian demands. The unveiling of this year’s We live today in a world of interlocking crises, each illustrating the unwillingness of leaders to act in the true, long-term interests of their people.

Is mankind inching closer towards the End of Days? Atomic scientists have set the "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before.

The clock was established in 1947, to highlight the looming threat of human annihilation following the age of nuclear warfare. Essentially, the closer to ...

“We are living in a time of unprecedented danger, and the Doomsday Clock time reflects that reality,” Bronson explained. The hands of the clock are set each year by the Bulletin’s science and security board with the support of its board of sponsors, which includes ten Nobel laureates. It’s also the first time the clock has moved in three years, having previously been set at 100 seconds to midnight in 2020 – a record at the time.

The Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward, hinting danger.

The history of the Doomsday Clock dates back to 1945, when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded by Albert Einstein and University of Chicago scientists. It is now, 90 seconds to midnight.” Did you know the world is closer to a global catastrophe?

It's not news when someone with a loudhailer shouts that the world is doomed.

The Doomsday Clock is put out by the Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences, giving it the imprimatur of being, well, scientific. In the entire history of the clock, it has never ticked back earlier than 17 minutes to midnight – which feels like having a system that judges risk on a scale of 1-100 and then never letting it drop below 99. So when the Doomsday Clock makes its occasional jumps backwards, it is hard to know what that really means.

The clock was established in 1947, to highlight the looming threat of human annihilation following the age of nuclear warfare. Essentially, the closer to ...

“We are living in a time of unprecedented danger, and the Doomsday Clock time reflects that reality,” Bronson explained. The hands of the clock are set each year by the Bulletin’s science and security board with the support of its board of sponsors, which includes ten Nobel laureates. It’s also the first time the clock has moved in three years, having previously been set at 100 seconds to midnight in 2020 – a record at the time.

When the clock's keepers announced its record disaster level on Tuesday, the tweets questioning its value came thick and fast.

While that seven-minutes-to-midnight setting seemed alarming back in the 1940s, that level is the most relaxed the Doomsday Clock has been since 2002. Krauss, who headed the Doomsday Clock’s group of scientists between 2009 and 2018, The image stuck, and has since served as a yearly snapshot for the state of the world. The most peaceful year of all was 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, ending the Cold War and with it, Communist rule in central and Eastern Europe. They feared that a Cold War arms race between the U.S. Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said, “has repeatedly raised the specter of nuclear use.” [“Nonsense,” responded Twitter user Tom Nolan after the announcement.](https://twitter.com/ThomNolan/status/1484190223793799168) “In reality, it is at about lunchtime.” [wrote in 2020, when the clock](https://www.wsj.com/articles/time-to-stop-the-doomsday-clock-11579734922) setting was moved to 100 seconds to midnight. So, in 1947, an artist drew the first Doomsday Clock for the cover of the University of Chicago’s Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, showing the setting of seven minutes to midnight. [Japan](https://fortune.com/company/japan-post-holdings/) in 1945, effectively ending World War II, Albert Einstein and other physicists at the University of Chicago began sounding the alarm about the bombs’ existential threat to the planet. [said Steve Fetter, professor](https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1618217243862605825) of public policy at the University of Maryland, announcing the new setting on Tuesday. On Tuesday, the keepers of the Doomsday Clock moved the second hand 10 seconds closer, to just 90 seconds to midnight—marking the most perilous moment the world has faced since 1947, when the Doomsday Clock was invented.

The Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward, hinting danger.

The history of the Doomsday Clock dates back to 1945, when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded by Albert Einstein and University of Chicago scientists. It is now, 90 seconds to midnight.” Did you know the world is closer to a global catastrophe?

For the past 75 years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has announced how close it believes the world is to a nuclear attack.

Dr Jerry Pillay, states that we need “to heal, protect and care for the world and all creation, the production of Nuclear Weapons do the exact opposite. “The salience of this threat is now glaringly evident to all.” In Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, and Turkey, the United States has begun to replace its nuclear weapons with more modern ones.

Doomsday Clock for this year has been moved just 90 seconds to midnight, which makes us nearer to glob catastrophe than ever before.

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). [Doomsday Clock](/topic/doomsday-clock)announced disclosed that it is just 90 seconds to midnight which means that the world is now closer to annihilation than it has ever been since the first nuclear bombs were dropped at the end of [World War II](/topic/world-war-ii). They further noted that Ukraine’s sovereignty and broader Europe’s security arrangements have largely been held since the Second World War ended. They also noted that the war in According to scientists, the war’s effects are also undermining the global efforts to combat climate change. They also called for global action as “every second counts”.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS), founded in 1947, uses the clock to symbolise the potential likelihood of nuclear war destroying the planet. The ...

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In 1945, nuclear scientists established the Doomsday Clock to warn against human-made threats. This week, the clock's display has brought us the closest we ...

[fears of COVID-19 were rapidly replaced by fears of a nuclear war](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/12/world/europe/ukraine-europe-nuclear-war-anxiety.html). [special existential anxiety](https://www.icanw.org/dealing_with_nuclear_anxiety), as weapons of mass destruction have the potential to eradicate entire cultures, lands, languages and lives. As the time to midnight has drawn closer, the urgency of the threat is intensified. [Science and Security Board](https://thebulletin.org/about-us/science-and-security-board/) of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. To counter this recurring dread, [coping tools include](https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/war-anxiety-how-to-cope-202205232748) limiting media exposure, reaching out to others, cultivating compassion and changing your routine. The threat from North Korea’s nuclear arsenal [entered an alarming new phase](https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/08/north-korea-tactical-nuclear-threat/). [Russia and China](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/12/nuclear-weapons-russia-china-us-national-security-strategy) became increasingly tense. The [Iran nuclear deal was abandoned](https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-iran-nuclear-deal), affecting the [geopolitics of the Middle East](https://www.thecairoreview.com/essays/what-losing-the-iran-deal-could-mean-for-the-region/). In the late 1940s, the new threat of atomic weapons cast a dark cloud over the world. 24, 2023 represents the closest the clock has ever been to midnight — a clear wake-up call. 24, history was again made when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ organization moved the seconds hand of the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight. It is now at ‘90 seconds to midnight,’ the closest it has ever been to the symbolic midnight hour of global catastrophe.

According to the Doomsday Clock was set to 90 seconds before midnight, signaling the world is closer to catastrophe than ever.

“The Doomsday Clock is sounding an alarm for the whole of humanity. This is the first update since the Russian invasion of Ukraine last February. They say it was “largely, though not exclusively” due to the war in Ukraine.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists states that the clock is “a universally recognized indicator of the world's vulnerability to global catastrophe caused ...

The history of the Doomsday Clock dates back to 1945, when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded by Albert Einstein and University of Chicago scientists. It is now, 90 seconds to midnight.” Did you know the world is closer to a global catastrophe?