The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor or symbol representing how close humanity is to self-destruction via a human-made global catastrophe according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

The Doomsday Clock has moved forward by one second, making it 89 seconds until midnight. Here's what that means in terms of global catastrophe.

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Created in 1947 by the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as a symbolic countdown to global catastrophe, the Doomsday Clock had its first shift in three years on Jan 22. It now stands ...

The Doomsday Clock, which has been used to examine the world’s vulnerability to global catastrophe for nearly a century, has moved one second closer to midnight. On Jan. 28, the Bulletin of the ...

The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic measure of how close humanity is to global catastrophe, has been adjusted to 89 seconds before midnight—its most alarming position to date.The Bulletin of the ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metric maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist of how close the world is to a human-made global catastrophe. It was founded by University of Chicago scientists ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set the Doomsday Clock at 89 seconds to midnight, marking the closest it has ever been to the symbolic point of global catastrophe. Established in 1947 ...

As global tensions rise and climate threats loom, the Doomsday Clock, a symbol of ... before midnight - the closest it's ever been to a catastrophe. This alarming shift is a "warning" from a ...

The Doomsday Clock now indicates that we’re metaphorically ... of delay in reversing course increases the probability of global disaster.” The Bulletin described the global changes that ...

The famous Doomsday clock is now set at 89 seconds to midnight, which is the closest it has ever been to "global catastrophe." Yesterday morning, Chicagoans (and denizens around the world ...