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Doomsday Clock slogans: Pick your favorite

By Dawn Stover | April 9, 2020

2020 doomsday clock unveiling 100 seconds to midnight

Shortly before the Bulletin moved its Doomsday Clock from two minutes to midnight to 100 seconds to midnight, Professor Jean du Preez polled his winter-term class at Middlebury College to find out where students thought the Clock should be set; most of the students recommended a setting between 60 and 90 seconds to midnight. Du Preez also asked the students to come up with slogans for the Clock, and then the students voted for their favorites.

Below are a few of the slogans the students wrote. Choose your favorite, and we’ll tell you which one the class picked, along with the latest poll results. We also invite you to submit your own slogan in the comments section below.

 


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Mark A Payne
Mark A Payne
4 years ago

It’s not too late to turn back now.

Sean Villariasa
Sean Villariasa
4 years ago

I’m thinking of Madonna and Justin Timberlake – 4 mins, when I voted the 100 seconds to midnight.

Jaime Demick
Jaime Demick
4 years ago

100 seconds to midnight: closer than ever to human-designed disaster

Dean Hunkele
Dean Hunkele
4 years ago

”Sanctions – the only deterrent”

Allen Lee Puckett
Allen Lee Puckett
4 years ago

Grim reaper holding a pocket watch

Dennis Wong
Dennis Wong
4 years ago

To Be Nukes or Not To Be
Act Now – Live or Die

Dale P. Deacon
4 years ago

“Enrich life, not uranium” is clever, but the bulletin is tracking technological disruption and environmental catastrophe too, so I think these are a little too nuclear-oriented… Maybe something a bit more abstract like “Building a better world for humanity” might be more fitting.

Carroll macintosh
4 years ago

Make the world better not worse.

A painted Doomsday Clock surrounded by text snippets and illustrations from the Bulletin’s magazine archives appears beside text that reads, “Discuss the US elections, geopolitics, space, and more at the Bulletin’s annual gathering. On November 12, join 250 attendees and members of Bulletin leadership—including those who set the Doomsday Clock—at our annual gathering in Chicago.” Below it, a button that reads, “Get my ticket.”

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