Doomsday clock

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The Bulletin has reset the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock 25 times since its debut in 1947, most recently in 2023 when we moved it from 100 seconds to midnight to 90 seconds to midnight. Every time it is reset, we're flooded with questions about the...
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The Bulletin's website, iconic Doomsday Clock, and regular events equip the public, policy makers, and scientists with the information needed to reduce man-made threats to our existence. The Bulletin focuses on three main areas: nuclear risk, climate...
At our core, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a media organization, publishing a free-access website and a bimonthly magazine. But we are much more. The Bulletin's website, iconic Doomsday Clock, and regular events equip the public, policy...
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Know the Time: 1944—2017. Know the Time from www.thebulletin.org on Vimeo.. Bulletin staff | July 12, 2017. An Animation of Nuclear Risk
Powerful wake-up call. In their unnervingly entertaining new book, The Doomsday Clock at 75, Robert K. Elder and J.C. Gabel trace the history of the clock, which they argue is "the most powerful ...
In January 2024, the hands of the Doomsday Clock did not budge. At 90 seconds to midnight, it is the nearest the world has been to disaster in the 77 years that the Bulletin of the Atomic ...
Doomsday Clock, set to 90 seconds before midnight, January 24, 2023. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists developed the symbolic clock in 1947. (more) Doomsday Clock, symbolic clock adopted by atomic scientists to show how close human beings are...
A Brief History of the Doomsday Clock. The Doomsday Clock was created by the board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947 as a response to nuclear threats. The concept is simple - the ...
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