The Latest Breaking News on The Doomsday Clock warns the world about catastrophe – here's why it stands at 90 seconds to midnight

If you needed a reminder that all is not well with the world, the Doomsday Clock moved forward once again in January. It’s now set for 90 seconds until midnight — closer to doom than ever before.

Critics call the clock a scare-mongering device — but the problem is, we have good reasons to fear extinction

On Jan. 24, history was again made when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ organization moved the seconds hand of the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight. It is now at ‘90 seconds to midnight,’ the closest it has ever been to the symbolic midnight hour of global catastrophe.

When the clock’s keepers announced its record disaster level on Tuesday, the tweets questioning its value came thick and fast.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - the creators of the clock - first launched the initiative in response to the threat of nuclear war in the 1940s

The Kremlin expressed alarm on Wednesday that the "Doomsday Clock" had edged closer to midnight than ever, even though the scientists who moved the symbolic dial cited Moscow's own "thinly veiled threats" to use nuclear weapons.

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the specter of nuclear weapon use, Earth crept its closest to Armageddon, a science-oriented advocacy group said, moving its famous “Doomsday Clock” up to just 90 seconds before midnight. “We are really closer to that doomsday,” former Mongolian president Elbegdorj Tsakhia said Tuesday at…

The clock was created in 1947 to warn humanity of the dangers of nuclear weapons.

Time shows how near to annihilation we are – from nuclear weapons, climate change, and other threats