The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than ever before. What does it mean? How is this determined? Can the clock be wound back?

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight reflecting unprecedented global risks including nuclear proliferation and climate change.

What Doomsday Clock reveals. Physicists like J. Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein were among its creators, who sought to

The Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which runs the clock, decided to move the clock one second closer to midnight because of climate change, nuclear threats and biological hazards.

For the first time in three years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock forward by one second.

The apocalyptic clock moved forward by one second yesterday, and is now the closest to midnight it has ever been

The Doomsday Clock is now at 89 seconds to midnight and we’ve never been closer to annihilation. Here’s everything you need to know about the recent announcement, the origins of the clock, and its presence in pop culture.

Physicists like J. Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein were among the creators of Doomsday Clock, who aimed to give a visual depiction of the threat presented by nuclear weapons.

Scientists and global leaders revealed on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" has been reset to the closest humanity has ever come to self-annihilation.

The Doomsday clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight putting it the closest the world has ever been to a "global catastrophe

"The 2025 Clock time signals that the world is on a course of unprecedented risk, and that continuing on the current path is a form of madness," the Bulletin said. "The United States, China, and Russia have the prime responsibility to pull the world back from the brink. The world depends on immediate action."