The clock is meant as a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which has maintained it since 1947. The group was founded two years ...

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece ... then Bronson views it as a success. When a new ...

Each year for the past 78 years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published a new Doomsday Clock, suggesting just how close – or far – humanity is to destroying itself. The next ...

Experts in their fields, including 11 Nobel laureates, annually set the hands of the clock according to the world’s future.