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Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images) The "Doomsday Clock" is now at 2 minutes to midnight. Are you scared? Because according to the experts at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, you should be.

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For these reasons, the board said, the doomsday clock now sits at 11:58, matching the darkest year in the clock's history precisely. Sign up for new weekly newsletter Closing Arguments to get the ...

The Doomsday ... of the clock indicate the time in seconds or minutes until midnight, or the time of a global catastrophe. Originally set at seven minutes to midnight, the time now is 89 seconds ...

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) --The hands on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock were moved forward Wednesday to reflect what the group believes is a greater risk of nuclear conflict in ...

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The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity is ... UChicago professor of astronomy and astrophysics and chair of the Science and Security Board. “If we act now, we might avoid ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says it has moved the hands of its famous "Doomsday Clock" a minute closer to midnight. Atomic scientists in New York moved the doomsday clock a minute ...