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Timeline of the Doomsday Clock [13] Year Minutes to midnight Time Change (minutes) Reason Clock 1947 7 23:53 0 The initial setting of the Doomsday Clock. 1949 3 23:57 −4 The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, the RDS-1, officially starting the nuclear arms race. 1953 2 23:58 −1
English: Graph showing the changes in the time of the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Numbers in left column refer to the "minutes to midnight" (nuclear war) as the values of the clock are usually expressed. At right column are the raw times.
* In leap years the n th doomsday is in ISO week n. In common years the day after the n th doomsday is in week n. Thus in a common year the week number on the doomsday itself is one less if it is a Sunday, i.e. in a common year starting on Friday (such as 2010, 2021, & 2027).
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set its Doomsday Clock at a new time that indicates how close we are to making Earth uninhabitable for humanity.
In 2020, the clock was set at 100 minutes to midnight, and remained unchanged for the next three years. Although originally intended to warn of the threat of nuclear Armageddon, the Doomsday Clock ...
The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 by members of the journal Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as a dramatic metaphor that symbolises just how close humanity is to the end of civilization. Source:
Jan. 21—This year's Doomsday Clock will remain frozen at 100 seconds to midnight — the closest it has been in its 75-year history to the metaphorical hour of the world's destruction. The clock ...
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