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Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board and Juan Manuel Santos, chair of The Elders and former president of Colombia, announce the setting of the Doomsday Clock on January 28, 2025 at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. It is now 89 seconds to midnight. Left to right: Daniel Holz, Herb Lin, Juan Manuel Santos, Robert Socolow, and Suzet McKinney. (Photo by Jamie Christiani/Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

PRESS RELEASE: Doomsday Clock set at 89 seconds to midnight, closest ever to human extinction

By Adam Dombovari | Doomsday Clock, What’s New at the Bulletin

The Doomsday Clock showing "It is 89 seconds to midnight" in between red Bulletin banners. (Photo by Jamie Christiani/Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

Artist statement on new Doomsday Clock design

By Tom Weis, Juan Noguera | Doomsday Clock, What’s New at the Bulletin

2024 Doomsday Clock announcement

2024 Doomsday Clock Statement: Biological Threats

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Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board and Juan Manuel Santos, chair of The Elders and former president of Colombia, announce the setting of the Doomsday Clock on January 28, 2025 at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. It is now 89 seconds to midnight. Left to right: Daniel Holz, Herb Lin, Juan Manuel Santos, Robert Socolow, and Suzet McKinney. (Photo by Jamie Christiani/Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

It is now 89 seconds to midnight

By Adam Dombovari | Doomsday Clock

Video: A history of the Doomsday Clock in 4 minutes

By Erik English | Doomsday Clock

2024 Doomsday Clock announcement

PRESS RELEASE: Doomsday Clock remains at 90 seconds to midnight

By Sarah Starkey | Doomsday Clock, What’s New at the Bulletin

Speakers standing in front of the Doomsday Clock

Watch the 2024 Doomsday Clock announcement

By Bulletin Staff | Doomsday Clock

Against the Clock doomsday clock documentary 2023

New film underscores Doomsday Clock’s importance and Bulletin history

By Sarah Starkey | Doomsday Clock, What’s New at the Bulletin

This is a section of the cover of a 1984 Bulletin magazine cover that reads "This is a time when things must be done before their time." The issue focused on the Doomsday Clock moving forward from four minutes to three minutes to midnight.

Moving the Doomsday Clock forward in 1984: Three minutes to midnight

By A Bulletin editorial | Doomsday Clock

This is a section of the cover of a December 1991 Bulletin magazine issue that marked the move of the Doomsday Clock from 10 minutes to midnight to 17 minutes to midnight. It shows an Earth with the Doomsday Clock hands overlaid on it, set at 17 minutes to midnight.

A new era: The farthest the Doomsday Clock ever moved backward

By A Bulletin editorial | Doomsday Clock

Interview: ChatGPT has a holiday message for you all

By Sara Goudarzi, Thomas Gaulkin | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Doomsday Clock

Some disagree that it is 100 seconds to midnight. These undergrads held a debate

By Nitish Vaidyanathan | Climate Change, Doomsday Clock, Nuclear Risk, Personal Essay