The iconic graphic of a timepiece originated as a nuclear warning. It updates its time on Thursday amid threats like climate change and pandemics. In …
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The Doomsday Clock Turns 75, World Remains '100 Seconds Until Midnight'
Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists warned we're "stuck in a perilous moment" after announcing the Doomsday Clock remains at 100 seconds until midnight. It's the third straight year we've been in this situation, underscoring how close humanity is to destroying the world. Created 75 years ago as a nuclear warning, this symbolic timepiece continues to draw attention to catastrophes to the human race. Learn more about the Doomsday Clock.
What Does the Doomsday Clock Still Tell Us About Humanity?
CNN — The Doomsday Clock has been ticking for exactly 75 years. But it’s no ordinary clock. It attempts to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Thursday, the clock was set at 100 seconds until midnight – the same time it has been since 2020. The clock isn’t designed to definitively …
For over 75 years, the clock and its keepers — who once included Einstein and Oppenheimer — reflect how close humanity is coming to the brink. This …
A Cold War icon, the clock conveys scientists’ views on humankind’s risk of destroying itself. Its current setting: just 100 seconds to midnight. Regardless of what your watch tells you, it’s 100 seconds to midnight. That’s the interval on the symbolic Doomsday Clock between the present moment and …
I first became aware of the Doomsday Clock at school in the mid-1990s when a teacher introduced it to me. She told my class about the grand sweep of history, explaining that if everything that had happened on our planet was compressed into a single year, then life would have emerged in early March, …
Martyl Langsdorf designed just one magazine cover, but it has had considerable staying power. A prolific painter of abstract and figurative canvases, she was commissioned 75 years ago by the scientists who built the atomic bomb that ended World War II. By 1947 the Cold War was on, and they wanted …
Why I'm giving up on the apocalypse countdown. Wondering how close the world is to total annihilation, existential doom, and the collapse of life as …
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists earlier this year voted to keep the hands of the Doomsday Clock measuring humanity’s likelihood to self-destruct closer to midnight than ever. One of those scientists is now leading a new generation of teachers fighting for our survival by changing the way we …
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