This is a 1984 statement written by the Bulletin’s editorial board that details why the Doomsday Clock moved forward from four minutes to three minutes. The board cited the accelerating nuclear arms ...

Humanity might be edging closer to the apocalypse according to the Doomsday Clock. A panel of scholars from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the symbolic countdown to the end of the world ...

Beginning in 1947, members of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (an academic journal) have taken time each year to evaluate the state of the world and estimate how close we are to doomsday. They ...