(NEXSTAR) – The Doomsday Clock, a concept designed by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to represent humanity’s proximity ...

The furthest the clock has been from midnight was 17 minutes. The clock was created in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic ...

The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents how close we are to destroying the world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It warns how many metaphorical “minutes to midnight” humanity has ...

The movement of its hands, either forward or backward, is decided by the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The scientists placed the hands of the 1947 clock at seven ...

The Doomsday Clock was designed by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in 1947 to help us understand that the hands of the clock indicate the time in seconds or minutes until midnight, or the time ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists unveil the 2018 "Doomsday Clock" Jan. 25, 2018 in Washington, DC. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images) The "Doomsday Clock" is now at 2 minutes to midnight.

This scene is rendered unforgettable by a depiction of the Doomsday Clock with its minute hand pointing at 15 seconds to midnight. In real life, the U.S. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset ...