Doomsday Clock

Atomic scientists set the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than ever before on Tuesday, saying threats of nuclear war, disease and climate volatility have ...

With emissions still rising, weather extremes continue, and were even more clearly attributable to climate change," Kartha said, pointing to the devastating flooding in Pakistan in 2022 as an example. "Russia's thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict by accident, intention or miscalculation is a terrible risk. The clock had been set to 100 seconds to midnight since 2020, which was already the closest it had ever come to midnight. The Doomsday Clock, created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to illustrate how close humanity has come to the end of the world, moved its "time" in 2023 to 90 seconds to midnight, 10 seconds closer than it has been for the past three years. Atomic scientists set the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than ever before on Tuesday, saying Clock is the closest to midnight it has ever been

In an update Tuesday, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset the clock from 100 seconds to 90 seconds — the closest it has ever been to midnight.

[In an update Tuesday](https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/), the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset the clock from 100 seconds to 90 seconds — the closest it has ever been to midnight. The hands of the clock were moved largely due to the Russia’s war in Ukraine – approaching one year – and the increased risk of nuclear escalation, the scientists said. [Doomsday Clock](https://globalnews.ca/tag/doomsday-clock/) has been moved closer to midnight as Russia’s invasion of [Ukraine](https://globalnews.ca/tag/ukraine) has heightened concerns about global annihilation.

Atomic scientists will reset the 'Doomsday Clock' on Tuesday with an estimate of how close they believe humanity is in 2023 to annihilation due to ...

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The symbolic clock, now set to 90 seconds to midnight, moved largely because of the war in Ukraine.

In 2020, the clock hands were moved 100 seconds closer to midnight. The decision is made by the BAS science and security board, which includes 13 Nobel Laureates. Midnight marks the theoretical point of annihilation.

The hands of the Doomsday Clock, used by top scientists to assess how close humanity is to self-annihilation, moved forwards to 90 seconds to midnight on ...

The Bulletin [How to read the Doomsday Clock](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220119-how-to-read-the-doomsday-clock) (BBC) [Is apocalypse near? Climate change risks were included for the first time in 2017, when the clock was moved five minutes to midnight, and have been a prominent discussion point in the Bulletin’s announcements since. [say](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220119-how-to-read-the-doomsday-clock) [it](https://theconversation.com/doomsday-clock-moves-closer-to-midnight-but-can-we-really-predict-the-end-of-the-world-36632) is best to use the timings as a way of stimulating discussion, highlighting risks and as a wake-up call rather than a strict risk assessment or indication of time humanity has left. The Bulletin, through a group of experts, is responsible for setting the hands of the clock each year. and the Soviet Union detonated their first thermonuclear weapons.

A statement from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Tuesday states the war in Ukraine is the main — though not the sole — reason for the move.

Critics have dismissed it as fearmongering, or questioned its usefulness and the methodology. The hands of the clock are moved closer to, or further away, from midnight based on the scientists’ reading of existential threats at a particular time. Article content

Speaking with Esquire in 2021 for the Big Watch Book, the President and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists opened up about the process behind the ...

It’s used at the highest levels of politics, used in classrooms, in grassroots conversations. And that’s what’s going to turn back the Clock. And what science can bring us, in terms of how unbelievably quickly we can get to a vaccine and then to distribution. We have a Doomsday Clock Playlist on our site! But our hope is that some people will and they’ll be able to find us. In terms of climate and the annual UN conference, the fact that it didn’t fall apart when the United States walked away is a huge sign of success. We don’t seem like these crazy experts who are, like, “the sky is falling in!” You may have heard of the Doomsday Clock, that represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe. On 24 January 2023, the hands of the Doomsday Clock – repositioned each year by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to reflect existential threats facing mankind and our planet – were set to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest the clock has ever come to forewarning armageddon. On the upside, you’ve got to think 2021’s been a bit better! You announce the Clock position each January. The Bulletin is a 75-year-old organisation that covers man-made threats to humanity.

The reset comes amid the war in Ukraine, nuclear threats and climate change.

“It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet.” “We are on the brink of a precipice. [science and security board](https://thebulletin.org/about-us/science-and-security-board/), composed of experts on nuclear weapons and climate change, meets to deliberate. The group of scientists behind the original clock included some who had participated in the [Manhattan Project](https://www.britannica.com/event/Manhattan-Project), which created the world’s first nuclear weapons. “Ninety seconds to midnight is the closest the clock has ever been set to midnight, and it’s a decision our experts do not take lightly.” The group also attributes its decision to various ongoing concerns, including the climate crisis and the “breakdown of global norms and institutions” needed to navigate “advancing technologies” and biological threats like Covid-19.

“We are really closer to that doomsday,” former Mongolian president Elbegdorj Tsakhia said Tuesday at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists annual announcement ...

“We are sending a message that the situation is becoming more urgent,” Bulletin President Rachel Bronson said at the online announcement. The advocacy group started in 1947 to use a clock to symbolize the potential and likelihood of people doing something to end humanity. “We are really closer to that doomsday,” former Mongolian president Elbegdorj Tsakhia said Tuesday at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists annual announcement rating how close humanity is from doing itself in.