Doomsday Clock

Doomsday Clock for this year has been moved just 90 seconds to midnight, which makes us nearer to glob catastrophe than ever before.

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). [Doomsday Clock](/topic/doomsday-clock)announced disclosed that it is just 90 seconds to midnight which means that the world is now closer to annihilation than it has ever been since the first nuclear bombs were dropped at the end of [World War II](/topic/world-war-ii). They further noted that Ukraine’s sovereignty and broader Europe’s security arrangements have largely been held since the Second World War ended. They also noted that the war in According to scientists, the war’s effects are also undermining the global efforts to combat climate change. They also called for global action as “every second counts”.

In a hundred years, today's strife will reappear as seemingly-insignificant etches on the warm pages of history books. It will describe a complicated tale.

Unlike an actual clock, however, it is possible to reverse time on the Doomsday Clock. Mann from the University of Pennsylvania, in an interview with CNN in 2022, called it "an imperfect metaphor" due to the way the Clock tries to consider different risk types in a bizarre unified manner. However, he also adds that it "remains an important rhetorical device that reminds us, year after year, of the tenuousness of our current existence on this planet". No, we're not talking about some bizarre contraption from the Marvel Cinematic Universe; the Doomsday Clock is a very real thing backed by distinguished scientists here on Earth. In explicit terms, Midnight refers to when we will have rendered Earth uninhabitable for humanity. In a hundred years, today's strife will reappear as seemingly-insignificant etches on the warm pages of history books.

The midnight on the clock indicates the complete annihilation of humankind. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has revived fears of nuclear war; The Bulletin of the ...

At 17 minutes to midnight, the clock was furthest from doomsday in 1991, as the Cold War ended and the United States and Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that substantially reduced both countries' nuclear weapons arsenals. The hands have been moved closer to midnight each time there is an existential threat. It depends on the apocalyptic threats that could arise from political tensions, weapons, technology, climate change, and even pandemic illness. What Is The Doomsday Clock? Humanity Is Now 90 Seconds Away From Catastrophe. - The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the "Doomsday Clock".

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists analyses the situation across the globe and provides a new Doomsday time every year in the month of January.

Follow us on [also read] [World](https://www.firstpost.com/category/world) [Ukrainian National Guard shares photos of snipers hiding in plain sight, asks users to locate them](https://www.firstpost.com/world/ukrainian-national-guard-shares-photos-of-snipers-hiding-in-plain-sight-asks-users-to-locate-them-12014582.html) After the end of the Cold War, it had been updated from 17 minutes to midnight, but in recent years, the organisation has switched from counting down minutes to ticking down seconds in recent years. The ongoing threats posed by climate change and the collapse of global institutions and norms necessary to reduce the risks connected with developing technologies and biological threats like COVID-19 also had an impact on the new Doomsday Clock time. There have been numerous Nobel laureates among its members over the years. A group of scientists, accompanied by former Mongolian president Elbegdorj Tsakhia and former Ireland President Mary Robinson, revealed the clock at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. However, to ensure a peaceful and habitable planet, our leaders are not acting quickly enough.”

“Russia's thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict—by accident, intention, or miscalculation—is a terrible ...

[science and security board](https://thebulletin.org/about-us/science-and-security-board/) of the [Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists](https://thebulletin.org/). Yesterday, the 22-member group [moved the Doomsday Clock – as a metaphor to indicate how near we are to a humanity-ending catastrophe ](https://thebulletin.org/2023/01/press-release-doomsday-clock-set-at-90-seconds-to-midnight/) [–](https://thebulletin.org/2023/01/press-release-doomsday-clock-set-at-90-seconds-to-midnight/) [ forward by 10 seconds](https://thebulletin.org/2023/01/press-release-doomsday-clock-set-at-90-seconds-to-midnight/). The latest move marks the closest point to midnight since the clock was set up in 1947 where it began at 23:53.

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

While that seven-minutes-to-midnight setting seemed alarming back in the 1940s, that level is the most relaxed the Doomsday Clock has been since 2002. Krauss, who headed the Doomsday Clock’s group of scientists between 2009 and 2018, The image stuck, and has since served as a yearly snapshot for the state of the world. The most peaceful year of all was 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, ending the Cold War and with it, Communist rule in central and Eastern Europe. They feared that a Cold War arms race between the U.S. Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said, “has repeatedly raised the specter of nuclear use.” [“Nonsense,” responded Twitter user Tom Nolan after the announcement.](https://twitter.com/ThomNolan/status/1484190223793799168) “In reality, it is at about lunchtime.” [wrote in 2020, when the clock](https://www.wsj.com/articles/time-to-stop-the-doomsday-clock-11579734922) setting was moved to 100 seconds to midnight. So, in 1947, an artist drew the first Doomsday Clock for the cover of the University of Chicago’s Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, showing the setting of seven minutes to midnight. [Japan](https://fortune.com/company/japan-post-holdings/) in 1945, effectively ending World War II, Albert Einstein and other physicists at the University of Chicago began sounding the alarm about the bombs’ existential threat to the planet. [said Steve Fetter, professor](https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1618217243862605825) of public policy at the University of Maryland, announcing the new setting on Tuesday. On Tuesday, the keepers of the Doomsday Clock moved the second hand 10 seconds closer, to just 90 seconds to midnight—marking the most perilous moment the world has faced since 1947, when the Doomsday Clock was invented.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS), founded in 1947, uses the clock to symbolise the potential likelihood of nuclear war destroying the planet. The ...

Kate Hudson of Britain’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament said: “This is the closest to annihilation we have ever come. You can read 5 more article this month This is the last article you can read this month

In 1945, nuclear scientists established the Doomsday Clock to warn against human-made threats. This week, the clock's display has brought us the closest we ...

[fears of COVID-19 were rapidly replaced by fears of a nuclear war](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/12/world/europe/ukraine-europe-nuclear-war-anxiety.html). [special existential anxiety](https://www.icanw.org/dealing_with_nuclear_anxiety), as weapons of mass destruction have the potential to eradicate entire cultures, lands, languages and lives. As the time to midnight has drawn closer, the urgency of the threat is intensified. [Science and Security Board](https://thebulletin.org/about-us/science-and-security-board/) of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. To counter this recurring dread, [coping tools include](https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/war-anxiety-how-to-cope-202205232748) limiting media exposure, reaching out to others, cultivating compassion and changing your routine. The threat from North Korea’s nuclear arsenal [entered an alarming new phase](https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/08/north-korea-tactical-nuclear-threat/). [Russia and China](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/12/nuclear-weapons-russia-china-us-national-security-strategy) became increasingly tense. The [Iran nuclear deal was abandoned](https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-iran-nuclear-deal), affecting the [geopolitics of the Middle East](https://www.thecairoreview.com/essays/what-losing-the-iran-deal-could-mean-for-the-region/). In the late 1940s, the new threat of atomic weapons cast a dark cloud over the world. 24, 2023 represents the closest the clock has ever been to midnight — a clear wake-up call. 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.

According to the Doomsday Clock was set to 90 seconds before midnight, signaling the world is closer to catastrophe than ever.

“The Doomsday Clock is sounding an alarm for the whole of humanity. This is the first update since the Russian invasion of Ukraine last February. They say it was “largely, though not exclusively” due to the war in Ukraine.

“We are really closer to that doomsday,” former Mongolian president Elbegdorj Tsakhia said Tuesday at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists annual announcement ...

“We are sending a message that the situation is becoming more urgent,” Bulletin President Rachel Bronson said at the online announcement. The advocacy group started in 1947 to use a clock to symbolize the potential and likelihood of people doing something to end humanity. “We are really closer to that doomsday,” former Mongolian president Elbegdorj Tsakhia said Tuesday at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists annual announcement rating how close humanity is from doing itself in.

Russia's war in Ukraine is the main reason the infamous "Doomsday Clock" hosted at the University of Chicago has moved closer than ever to midnight.

“The Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight — the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.” “The world’s ability to predict which of these viruses and microbes are most likely to cause human disease is woefully inadequate.” That’s 10 seconds closer to midnight than when the clock was last changed [in 2020](https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/01/23/doomsday-clock-now-only-100-seconds-to-midnight-the-closest-its-ever-been/) due to the “existential dangers” of nuclear war, climate change and information warfare. Suzet McKinney, Sterling Bay principal and University of Illinois Chicago graduate, also sits on the board. Two UChicago faculty members sit on the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board, which sets the Doomsday Clock. It’s inched steadily closer to midnight in the years since.

Ambassador Paul Hare, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, was interviewed for a USA Today ...

As noted in the article, one of the many motivators for moving the clock’s hands is the ongoing conflict in [Ukraine](https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/tag/ukraine/) and the ongoing risk of [Russia](https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/tag/russia/) using [nuclear weapons](https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/tag/nuclear-weapons/). Learn more about Professor Hare on his [faculty profile](https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/paul-webster-hare/). [read online](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nuclear-nightmare-ticks-closer-why-any-use-of-nuclear-weapons-would-be-a-disaster/ar-AA16GZ7a). [Paul Hare](https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/paul-webster-hare/), Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Frederick S. [Ambassador Paul Hare](https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/paul-webster-hare/) was a British diplomat for 30 years and the British ambassador to Cuba from 2001-04. While the exact damage of a nuclear detonation can only be speculated, Hare notes that the prospect of escalation is all too real.

WASHINGTON—Tick, tick, tick…the world's Doomsday Clock is the closest it's ever been to forecasting global disaster. The clock, published since 1945 by the ...

It specifically cited the defeat of Trump’s election deniers in the 2022 U.S. “The opposition succeeded in causing the department to withdraw its proposal. “Political opposition to a ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ proposed by the Department of Homeland Security was grounded in willful misrepresentation and the politics of personal destruction. Not only did weather extremes continue to plague diverse parts of the globe, but they were more evidently attributable to climate change,” the report says. Indeed, with a third of Pakistan underwater from “a monsoon on steroids,” climate change already has slammed it and other parts of the world, the report noted. “There is no clear path that forges a just peace under the shadow of the nuclear threat.” The U.S. Impacts, the report said, range from less food to more and worse floods. Shortly thereafter President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz upped the ante in the war by ordering dispatch of 14 Leopard tanks from Germany and 31 Abrams tanks from the U.S. and German tanks to fight the Russians in Ukraine. Is humanity safer or more at risk this year than in the last 75 years?” of the Doomsday Clock, asked Bronson. The federation has made that point often before, most notably in 2020, on the 75 thth anniversary of the U.S.

On Tuesday, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds until midnight, with midnight representing world apocalypse. The ...