Tick tock—the Doomsday Clock is now closer ... the Bulletin's Science and Security Board—was 17 minutes, in 1991. "When the clock is at midnight, that means there's been some sort of nuclear ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity ... The furthest the clock has been set was 17 minutes to midnight, in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the signing ...

Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images) The "Doomsday Clock" is now at 2 minutes to midnight. Are you scared? Because according to the experts at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, you should be.

until the end of the Cold War and the hope it brought to humanity pushed the clock back to 17 minutes before midnight – the farthest it’s ever been from doomsday. The scientists added climate change ...

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) --The hands on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock ... reset 17 times since it was created in 1947, when it was also set at seven minutes to midnight.

The Doomsday Clock was designed by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in 1947 to help us understand that the hands of the clock indicate the time in seconds or minutes until midnight, or the time ...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is not ready to retire. On Monday, her 78th birthday, Preckwinkle announced she’ll seek a fifth term to lead the nation’s second-most populous ...

In response to nuclear disarmament by both the United States and the Soviet Union, the time on the Doomsday Clock fell back from 10 minutes to midnight to 17 minutes to midnight. The minutes and ...

it sort of reminds us of the doomsday clock — you know, the ‘minutes to midnight’ quarter clock face that shows the current perceived threat level of how close we are to destroying the world ...

Scientists in New York Thursday pushed the symbolic Doomsday Clock's hand back to 6 minutes to midnight, citing hope in nuclear weapons and climate change. U.S. News // 1 decade ago 'Doomsday ...