"Fire and fury": President Trump warns North Korea 02:51. The Doomsday Clock, the mechanism that roughly calculates the likelihood of global destruction due to man-made disasters such as nuclear ...

On Jan. 26, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, whose board of sponsors I chair, reset its Doomsday Clock to 2 minutes, 30 seconds to midnight, the closest it has been to midnight in more than ...

Doomsday Clock reset imminent amid Israel-Hamas war and threats from Iran, North Korea and Russia’s ‘unhinged’ Putin By . Alex Mitchell. Published Jan. 6, 2025, 5:49 p.m. ET.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says the Doomsday Clock “is as close to midnight today as it was in 1953, when Cold War fears perhaps reached their highest levels.” ...

Hard to believe it has been 60 years since Nevil Shute published On the Beach. Six long decades of retrenchment, negotiation and half-baked political promises of redemption. All accomplished in ...

The Doomsday Clock tied a frightening record.After a year of rising nuclear tensions between North Korea and the U.S., the metaphorical timepiece on Wednesday was set at two minutes to midnight ...

The Doomsday Clock will remain at 100 seconds to midnight for a third year running. ... China and North Korea were taken into account. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist.

In 2020, it was set at 100 seconds to midnight, and remained unchanged for the next three years. Although originally intended to warn of the threat of nuclear armageddon, the Doomsday Clock has ...

The Doomsday Clock was moved on Thursday to two minutes to midnight ... North Korea’s continuing nuclear weapon and ballistic missile tests and heightened tensions between the U.S. and Russia, ...

Doomsday Clock reset imminent amid Israel-Hamas war and threats from Iran, North Korea and Russia’s ‘unhinged’ Putin After two years of extreme conflict, the Doomsday Clock will be annually ...