The closer it is to midnight, the closer the world is to doom. The last time the clock moved was in 2012 when the Board set the minute hand at 11:55 p.m. over concerns about the state of nuclear ...

The Doomsday Clock was moved on Thursday to two minutes to midnight – marking the closest the symbolic point of global Armageddon that the clock represents has reached since 1953.

As a result, the clock — which was moved up two minutes to 11:57 p.m. last year — will remain at the closest it's been to midnight since 1984, when the Cold War was at its iciest. "Three ...

The last time the clock was set to two minutes to midnight was 1953, when the U.S. and Soviet Union had each tested their first hydrogen bombs.

She created the clock and set it at seven minutes to midnight, or 11:53, for the cover of the group's magazine. Her husband moved the time four minutes later in 1949. Advertisement.

The clock's hands were pushed all the way back to 11:43 p.m., 17 minutes to midnight, in December 1991, after the world's superpowers signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which at the time ...

The clock's hands were pushed all the way back to 11:43 p.m., 17 minutes to midnight, in December 1991, after the world's superpowers signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which at the time ...

But the Doomsday Clock isn’t bound by time, and as such, can move backwards. In 2010, an optimistic Bulletin did move the minute hand backwards, from five minutes to midnight to six, citing ...

In 1949, it was set at three minutes to midnight after the Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear bomb test. The time fell all the way to 17 minutes to midnight after the Cold War ended in 1991.

Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock - which inspired Iron Maiden song '2 Minutes to Midnight' - ahead to 90 seconds away from the end in January 2023.

In 2018, the Doomsday Clock was set at two minutes to midnight after President Donald Trump's continuous rhetoric about boosting the US' stash of nuclear weapons. And in 2020, ...