The Doomsday Clock and The Final Countdown

The Doomsday Clock reveals how close we are to total annihilation

By Megan Marples, Kristen Rogers and Rachel Ramirez, CNN
Tue January 24, 2023

From left: Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Siegfried S. Hecker, Daniel Holz, Sharon Squassoni, Mary Robinson and Elbegdorj Tsakhia stand for a photo with the 2023 Doomsday Clock in Washington, DC, on January 24.

The Doomsday Clock has been ticking for 76 years. But it’s no ordinary clock.

It attempts to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world.

On Tuesday, the clock was set at 90 seconds until midnight — the closest to the hour it has ever been, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which created the clock in 1947. Midnight represents the moment at which we will have made Earth uninhabitable for humanity. From 2020 to 2022, the clock was set at 100 seconds to midnight.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/24/world/doomsday-clock-2023-climate-scn/index.html

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