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Doomsday Clock

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

Stryke Percussion drum ensemble members perform "7 Minutes to Midnight"

Bulletin debuts new sonic mark with STRYKE Percussion

By John Pope | 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

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

To prevent global catastrophe, governments must first admit there’s a problem

By Rumtin Sepasspour, Courtney Tee | Disruptive Technologies

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

Bill Nye joins the 2024 Doomsday Clock announcement.

Bill Nye joins the 2024 Doomsday Clock announcement

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

The best multimedia stories of 2023

By Thomas Gaulkin, Erik English | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

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

Why a Russian nuclear expert thinks the Doomsday Clock should move away from midnight

By Pavel Podvig | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

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