At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, nearly eight decades later, the clock ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor, not a mechanical forecast, but it is built on concrete assessments of global risk. Created in the late 1940s by scientists who had worked on nuclear weapons, it was ...

Humanity continues to move closer to catastrophe, scientists said Tuesday, Jan. 27. The human race is at its closest point yet to destroying itself, according to the reset of the ominous but symbolic ...

Like most Americans, I was relieved to learn the Doomsday Clock has once again sped up, bringing humanity closer to the end of all things and putting us well within reach of the sweet, welcoming ...