Experts warn that the doomsday clock for nuclear war keeps moving in the wrong direction. Is peace still possible?

Is doomsday almost here? The time on the symbolic Doomsday Clock — designed by scientists to measure how close the world is to an apocalypse — will be recalibrated next week. The Bulletin of ...

When the Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight, researchers found significant increases in suicide rates, Alzheimer’s disease mortality, and substance-related deaths across a 70-year span.

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history. Here's a look at how — and why — it's moved.

Watch the 2023 Doomsday Clock announcement: The clock has ticked minutes or seconds toward or away from catastrophe over the years. Wars bring it closer, treaties and cooperation further away.

The changes to what the Doomsday Clock measures also highlight the symbol’s biggest problem. “Midnight” implies a finality: the end-of-the-world hard stop that we associate with nuclear war.

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history. Here's a look at how — and why — it's moved.

The 2025 Doomsday Clock — displayed at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday — is the closest it's ever been to midnight. Humanity is closer than ever to catastrophe, ...

The clock remains closer to destruction than at any point since it was created in 1947. The 2022 Doomsday Clock statement explains that the “decision does not, by any means, suggest that the ...

The Doomsday Clock reads 100 seconds to midnight, a decision made by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (just as it did back in January 2020 and last year as well).