Closer than ever: It is 100 seconds to midnight
2020 Doomsday Clock Announcement
Washington, D.C. • January 23, 2020
Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential dangers—nuclear war and climate change—that are compounded by a threat multiplier, cyber-enabled information warfare, that undercuts society’s ability to respond. The international security situation is dire, not just because these threats exist, but because world leaders have allowed the international political infrastructure for managing them to erode.
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Op-ed: Why the world is closer than ever to Doomsday
Read the urgent call for action from the Bulletin's executive chair and former Governor of California Jerry Brown, Governing Board chair and former US Secretary of Defense William Perry, and former President of Ireland Mary Robinson and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, leaders of The Elders. “We share a common concern over the failure of the multilateral system to address the existential threats we face. ... Our mechanisms for collaboration are being undermined when we need them the most,” they write, detailing the motivations behind the decision to set the Doomsday Clock to 100 seconds to midnight—the closest it's ever been. Keep reading »
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FAQ
The Bulletin has reset the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock 24 times since its debut in 1947, most recently in 2020 when we moved it from two minutes to midnight to 100 seconds to midnight. Every time it is reset, we’re flooded with questions about the internationally recognized symbol. Here are answers to some of the most frequent queries.
The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet.
When the Doomsday Clock was created in 1947, the greatest danger to humanity came from nuclear weapons, in particular from the prospect that the United States and the Soviet Union were headed for a nuclear arms race. The Bulletin considered possible catastrophic disruptions from climate change in its hand-setting deliberations for the first time in 2007.
FAQ
The Bulletin has reset the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock 24 times since its debut in 1947, most recently in 2020 when we moved it from two minutes to midnight to 100 seconds to midnight. Every time it is reset, we’re flooded with questions about the internationally recognized symbol. Here are answers to some of the most frequent queries.