The Doomsday Clock Moves 2 Minutes Closer To Midnight : The Two-Way A group of prominent scientists uses the clock as a symbol of imminent disaster for humanity. It moved toward catastrophe ...

Last year the Doomsday Clock's hands were set at 2 minutes to midnight, the closest it had ever been to "doomsday."And, citing similar risks of humanity's destruction, BAS representatives ...

The Doomsday Clock, which was bumped up to just two minutes from midnight in early 2018, remains at the same setting for 2019.It’s the closest the clock has ever been to midnight, matching the ...

It's two minutes before midnight for the second year in a row. Bulletin of Atomic Scientists In its seven decades of existence, the clock has never been closer to midnight than it is right now.

In an op-ed penned for the Washington Post last year, when the clock was moved to 2.30 minutes to midnight, Lawrence M. Krauss and retired Navy Rear Adm. David Titley said, “Never before has the ...

In the early days of the clock, the scientists most feared nuclear annihilation. In 1953, both the United States and the former Soviet Union had tested their first hydrogen bombs and the clock moved ...

Two Minutes to Midnight. The Doomsday Clock is the creation of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group that formed in the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

"Since its creation in 1947, the Doomsday Clock has been adjusted only 18 times, ranging from two minutes before midnight in 1953 to 17 minutes before midnight in 1991," said BAS.

The “Doomsday Clock”, which symbolises the threat of global annihilation, is at two minutes to midnight thanks to the rise of fake news and information warfare, its keepers have said.