The "Doomsday Clock," a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation, was moved to 85 seconds to midnight Tuesday, its closest point to catastrophe since the clock made its debut nearly 80 ...
The clock is a symbolic way to show the public how close scientists believe the world is to a human-made apocalypse.
The human race is at its closest point yet to destroying itself, according to a reset of the ominous but symbolic "Doomsday ...
USA TODAY asked Alexandra Bell, the president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a few questions about the Doomsday Clock.
Midnight represents the moment at which people will have made Earth uninhabitable.
Atomic scientists set their "Doomsday Clock" on Tuesday closer than ever to midnight, citing aggressive behavior by nuclear powers Russia, China and the United States, fraying nuclear arms control, ...