Since The Doomsday Clock first appeared on the cover of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947, it has conveyed how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction, and has monitored the means humankind could use to obliterate itself. First and foremost, these include nuclear weapons, but they also encompass climate-changing technologies and new developments in the life sciences that could inflict irrevocable harm. The Scientists announced today that they are moving the clock forward one minute.
Doomsday Clock moves to five minutes to midnight. [Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists] – It is five minutes to midnight. Two years ago, it appeared that world leaders might address the truly global threats that we face. In many cases, that trend has not continued or been reversed. For that reason, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is moving the clock hand one minute closer to midnight, back to its time in 2007.