Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists members, from left, Jon B. Wolfsthal, Asha M. George and Steve Fetter reveal the Doomsday ...

The "Doomsday Clock" was set to 85 seconds to midnight on Jan. 27 — marking the closest it has been to the time that represents apocalypse in its history. “The Doomsday Clock’s message cannot be ...

The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than ever before, in what appears to be an ominous warning about the state of our world. Released every year by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, this ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor, not a mechanical forecast, but it is built on concrete assessments of global risk. Created in the late 1940s by scientists who had worked on nuclear weapons, it was ...

But the idea that we are almost at the point of no return via the Doomsday Clock is no longer useful or helpful. This is especially the case since the doom symbolized by the clock has become more ...

The Doomsday Clock — a symbolic device to signal an array of existential threats to the world since 1947 — was recently moved to 85 seconds before midnight, the closest it has ever been to midnight.