which is the closest it has ever been to midnight in the 78 years since it started running. So what has set off the historic change? Essentially everything, according to the 2025 Doomsday Clock ...

Humanity is closer to destroying itself, according to atomic scientists who revealed on Tuesday that the famous “Doomsday Clock” was set to 89 seconds to midnight — the closest it has ever been.

She set the original hands at seven minutes to midnight because "it looked good to my eye." The clock graced the cover of the 1947 Bulletin and has remained its iconic image ever since — even as ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its Doomsday Clock forward for 2025, announcing that it is now set to 89 seconds to midnight –— the closest it’s ever been to catastrophe.

Pic: AP When it first began in 1947, the clock was set at seven minutes to midnight. Artist Martyl Langsdorf came up with the idea of the clock and set the time to symbolise the dangers of nuclear ...