CHICAGO -- The Doomsday Clock has been set to its closest time to midnight in its history, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Tuesday. The clock has now been set to 90 seconds to midnight ...

Civilization is still as close to worldwide destruction as it was last year. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists unveiled in Washington D.C. on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" will remain ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Humanity is edging closer and closer to annihilation, scientists say. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the minute hand on its Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to ...

Earlier this year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that it was moving the hands of the Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds before midnight, a symbolic hour signifying global catastrophe. The ...

The risk of nuclear war and the threat of climate change have caused the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to move the Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to catastrophe to two minutes to midnight. This ...

Moscow: Eight decades after the United States struck Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the world is beginning to witness the same shadows returning. Cities have not fallen, but the ...

The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic gauge of how close humanity is to global catastrophe, remains set at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest point in its 77-year history. Maintained by the Bulletin of the ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Thursday said that the proverbial "Doomsday Clock" remained at 100 seconds to midnight — or, as the group put it, "at doom's doorstep." The "Doomsday Clock" ...

Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Wednesday with a ceremony reminding the world of the horrors unleashed, as sabre-rattling between the United States and Russia keeps the ...

When the Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons, the magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock. As the prospect of nuclear war gets more likely, the minute hand gets closer ...

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