The metaphorical clock measures how close humanity is to self-destruction, because of nuclear disaster, climate change, AI and misinformation.

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 earlier by University of Chicago scientists who had helped develop the first nuclear weapons for the Manhattan Project.

A science-oriented advocacy group advanced its famous clock to 89 seconds Tuesday, the closest it has ever been.

The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic representation of the threat of human extinction, with midnight representing catastrophe.

(AP) — Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock ... countries such as North Korea, Russia and China ...

The Doomsday Clock shows the global community faces the three-headed catastrophe of global warming, pandemics and nuclear weapons use.

In a statement outlining the change, the Board highlighted three main reasons for “moving the Doomsday Clock from 90 seconds to 89 seconds to midnight.” These include ongoing nuclear risks, accelerating climate disasters, and emerging biological and technological dangers.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the science-oriented advocacy group which created the clock during the Cold War, set the time at 89 seconds to midnight – the closest it h

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The metaphorical clock measures how close humanity is to self-destruction, because of nuclear disaster, climate change, AI and misinformation.

The world is closer than ever before to total apocalypse, the scientists behind the Doomsday Clock have warned. The Doomsday Clock was begun in 1947, as a metaphor for the danger that the world was facing.