The Doomsday Clock, a concept designed by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to represent humanity’s proximity to a global catastrophe, was updated on Tuesday.

moves the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock to two minutes to midnight in January 2018. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by a group of Chicago-based scientists who had worked on ...

Pic: AP When it first began in 1947, the clock was set at seven minutes to midnight. Artist Martyl Langsdorf came up with the idea of the clock and set the time to symbolise the dangers of nuclear ...