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😳 The Doomsday Clock hit another dreaded milestone, with scientists setting the clock just 85 seconds to midnight. http://tmz.me/4EqGj4F
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Doomsday Clock Set Closer to Midnight Than Ever — 85 Seconds from Global Catastrophe! APT
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
https://thebulletin.org
Doomsday Clock Timeline
17 hours ago — 85 Seconds to Midnight. Russia, China, the United States, and other major countries have become increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic.
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/timeline/
Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists
The Clock Shifts
It is now 85 seconds to midnight
2026 Doomsday Clock Statement
Science and Security Board
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Editor, John Mecklin
January 27, 2026
It is now 85 seconds to midnight
A year ago, we warned that the world was perilously close to global disaster and that any delay in reversing course increased the probability of catastrophe. Rather than heed this warning, Russia, China, the United States, and other major countries have instead become increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic. Hard-won global understandings are collapsing, accelerating a winner-takes-all great power competition and undermining the international cooperation critical to reducing the risks of nuclear war, climate change, the misuse of biotechnology, the potential threat of artificial intelligence, and other apocalyptic dangers. Far too many leaders have grown complacent and indifferent, in many cases adopting rhetoric and policies that accelerate rather than mitigate these existential risks. Because of this failure of leadership, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board today sets the Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to catastrophe.
Read moar: https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/2026-statement/
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What is the Doomsday Clock?
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The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet.
When the Doomsday Clock was
created in
1947
the greatest danger to humanity came from nuclear weapons, in particular from the prospect that the United States and the Soviet Union were headed for a nuclear arms race. The Bulletin considered possible catastrophic disruptions from climate change in its hand-setting deliberations for the first time in 2007
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Who created the Doomsday Clock?
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Co-editor Hyman Goldsmith asked artist Martyl Langsdorf to come up with a design for the cover of the June 1947 edition of the Bulletin, the first issue published as a magazine rather than a newsletter. Martyl—as she was known professionally—was married to a physicist, Alexander Langsdorf, who worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago.
At first, the artist considered using the symbol for uranium. But as she listened to the scientists who had worked on the Bomb, as they passionately debated the consequences of the new technology and their responsibility to inform the public, she felt their sense of urgency. So she sketched a clock to suggest that we didn’t have much time left to get atomic weapons under control.
Graphic designer Michael Bierut reimagined the iconic image in 2007.