24/7 Wall St. reviewed the timeline of the Doomsday Clock to list the number of minutes and seconds to midnight for each year since 1947, the first year the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a ...

The Doomsday Clock is a project from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists tracking the odds that the world will end. “Midnight” on the clock is the hypothetical point where the world would end.

The Doomsday Clock is still at 90 seconds to midnight. ... The fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain, along with the reunification of Germany, meant that the Cold War was nearing an end.

The clock, set at seven minutes to midnight, appeared on the cover of its first issue in 1947. Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer set up the Board of Sponsors in 1948 to help guide setting ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Tuesday unveiled their updated ‘Doomsday Clock,’ which is now 90 seconds to midnight. Photo: Patrick Semansky/Associated Press ...