Moving from a Doomsday Clock to a Peace Clock
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The Bulletin of…
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As the Doomsday Clock Ticks Closer to Midnight, Will Trump Make the Ultimate Deal?
by Robert Dodge and Talia Wilcox All nuclear nations are following the U.S. lead in rebuilding their arsenals, giving President Trump, who has expressed concern over nuclear war, a chance…
Closer than ever: Doomsday Clock is now 89 seconds to midnight
In 2024, humanity edged ever closer to catastrophe. Trends that have deeply concerned the Science and Security Board continued, and despite unmistakable signs of danger, national leaders and their societies…
Maybe Doom Isn’t Scary Enough
I interviewed three anti-nuke activists to understand the Doomsday Clock and how our society thinks about the very real threat of nuclear war. “Dear young people who have never experienced…
90 Seconds to Midnight – The Doomsday Clock and Me
I’m not a TikTok person. I’m too old. But when I finally ventured onto that popular but much-maligned app, which traffics in short videos and hot takes, I was surprised…
Ukraine War – US-China Relations And the Doomsday Clock
The “Doomsday” clock has been advanced further due to the ongoing Ukraine war, which in reality, is a war between Russia and the US-led West and their collaborators elsewhere. Ukraine…
Why the Doomsday Clock Statement This Year Should be Questioned Widely
The single most issue of our deeply troubled world today is that it is already in the middle of a very serious survival crisis. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has…
Doomsday Clock Jitters and “How to Fix a Broken Planet”
In January of every year for the past 75 years the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists publishes an updated setting of the Doomsday Clock. The clock is a metaphor for…
What Can the United States Bring to the Peace Table for Ukraine?
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The 2023 Doomsday Clock statement - Image credit: the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has just…
A time of unprecedented danger: It is 90 seconds to midnight
This year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward, largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting…
How Risks of Nuclear Weapons Have Become Alarmingly High
Risks of nuclear weapons have become alarmingly high due to a number of factors. Giving one indication of this, the Union of Concerned Scientists, USA, has written recently that warheads…
The Doomsday Clock SOS
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists unveiled the resetting of the Doomsday Clock on January 20th 2022, electing to keep the clock’s setting at 100 seconds to midnight, same as…
Humanity at “Doom’s Doorstep” Says Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Top scientists responsible for the "Doomsday Clock" issued a stark warning Thursday about how close the world is to catastrophe due to the climate emergency, nuclear weapons, and "disruptive technologies in…
100 Seconds to Midnight?
If you live in California, you’re likely to be consumed on occasion by thoughts of fire. That’s not surprising, given that, in last year alone, actual fires consumed over four and a…
“I Told You So. You Damned Fools”: 75 Years of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Leafing – or in this case scrolling through – the commemorative issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists after 75 years of publication is a tingling exercise of existence. …
John Hersey, Hiroshima, and the End of World
Whether you’re reading this with your morning coffee, just after lunch, or on the late shift in the wee small hours of the morning, it’s 100 seconds to midnight. That’s…
The Final 100 Seconds
Never before this year 2020 has the world-famous Doomsday Clock registered only “100 seconds-to-midnight.” According to the Science & Security Board, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, since WWII, the world…
Doomsday Clock Now Two And A Half Minutes To Midnight
The symbolic Doomsday Clock inched closer to midnight on Thursday, and we have President Donald Trump largely to thank for the ominous development. At the National Press Club in Washington,…
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