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The farthest time from midnight was 17 minutes in 1991, and the nearest is 90 seconds, set in January 2023. The Clock was moved to 150 seconds (2 minutes, 30 seconds) in 2017, then forward to 2 minutes to midnight in January 2018, and left unchanged in 2019. [ 6 ]
It reached that time last year, when it was moved forward by 10 seconds. The Doomsday Clock will be updated today as a symbol of the threat from war, nuclear weapons and the climate crisis, as ...
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.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists just moved its apocalyptic Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight—the closest it's ever been. Not good.
Throughout the history of the Doomsday Clock, it has moved closer to midnight, and farther away, depending upon the status of the world at that time. [18] The Doomsday Clock has been getting closer to midnight since 1991, when it was set to 17 minutes to midnight, after the United States and the Soviet Union reached an agreement on nuclear arms ...
Scientists revealed on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" has been moved up to 90 seconds before midnight -- the closest humanity has ever been to armageddon. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ...
On 24 January 2023, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists adjusted its Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight, a 10-second advancement from the Clock's previous time setting in 2020. The organization cited increasing risk of nuclear escalation stemming from Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a major factor in the adjustment. [90]
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set its Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest the timepiece has ever been to symbolic disaster.