In recent years, the clock's settings have mostly reflected the risk of nuclear war and the dangers of uncontrolled climate change. This year, the clock will be updated on Tuesday Jan. 23 at 10:00 ...

when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — which created the clock in 1947 — jumped it forward 20 seconds. The group attributed this year’s time shift mostly to Russia’s war in Ukraine ...

It's the first update to the clock since Russia's invasion of Ukraine renewed fears of global nuclear war. Historically, the clock has measured the danger of nuclear disaster, but that's not the ...

The Doomsday Clock has been officially reset and will ... by Hamas in Israel and the potential for a broader regional war involving nuclear weapons states, environmental impacts including ...

Influences behind the positioning of the clock at that time included the Russia-Ukraine war; Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7, 2023; the potential for widespread nuclear warfare; the ...

If a nuclear war happens, it could very well start by accident.

The Doomsday Clock, or the Nuclear War Clock, represents how close we are veering towards a human-made global catastrophe. According to the “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists”, a magazine for ...

So why is the grave threat of nuclear war virtually absent from our politics? Ad Policy The Doomsday Clock set to 90 seconds to midnight at the National Press Club, in Washington, DC, Tuesday ...

In a way, the Doomsday Clock is a victim of its own success as an unparalleled symbol of 20th-century, Cold War nuclear fear. So compelling was the idea of the hands of a clock, inching toward the ...

Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images For the last two years, the clock has stayed at 90 seconds to midnight, with scientists citing the ongoing war in Ukraine and an increase in the risk of nuclear ...

Slater serves on the Board of World BEYOND War and is a UN NGO Representative of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. While the goal of the Doomsday Clock is to show how each year, the proliferation ...