Since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group founded by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer and others, has ...

Rather, a new breed of futurists, applying the physical sciences and working with computer modelling, try to crunch massive ...

The Doomsday Clock was at its furthest point from midnight in 1991, marking the official end of the Cold War and the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty by both the United States and ...

The Bulletin’s Doomsday Clock was reset to 90 seconds before midnight (from ... However, these commitments are now threatened by a new Cold War and increased global tensions. Nine nuclear weapon ...

In 1991, the Doomsday Clock was set furthest from midnight, a moment that mirrored the official conclusion of the Cold War and coincided with the US and Russia penning the Strategic Arms Reduction ...

November next year is to mark 40 years since then-US president Ronald Reagan and then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declared that “a nuclear war cannot be won and ... the Atomic Scientists has set ...

The first NYE countdown can arguably be traced to the final seconds of 1957, when prominent radio correspondent Ben Grauer ...

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