But the idea that we are almost at the point of no return via the Doomsday Clock is no longer useful or helpful. This is especially the case since the doom symbolized by the clock has become more ...

The midnight doomsday clock headlines can sound like a final countdown, but the Doomsday Clock is a warning symbol, not a prediction. It is reset each year by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to ...

The latest Doomsday Clock, a symbol scientists use to show how close humanity is to destruction, has been updated. On 27 January 2026, the clock was moved to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ...

(CNN) — At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, nearly eight decades later, the ...