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1 day ago · The Doomsday Clock created in 1947, was made to determine how close humanity was to its own destruction, mainly by nuclear weapons. The nearest the clock had ever been to midnight before this was 17 minutes to midnight in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the creation and signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
2 days ago · Predictions of apocalyptic events that would result in the extinction of humanity, a collapse of civilization, or the destruction of the planet have been made since at least the early Common Era. [1] Most predictions are related to Abrahamic religions, often standing for or similar to the eschatological events described in their scriptures.
2 days ago · The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’s doomsday clock is just 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has been to apocalypse in its 75-year history. This signifies “a moment of historic danger.”
4 days ago · The end of the world is closer than ever. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on January 23, 2024, that their metaphorical ‘Doomsday Clock’ will remain at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest the world has ever been to the hypothetical hour of Armageddon.
5 days ago · Experts believe the risk of nuclear war is closer than ever, with the infamous Doomsday Clock — a prediction on when mushroom clouds will rise over the world’s cities — being set to 100 seconds to midnight.
5 days ago · Number of nuclear weapons worldwide 1945-2024. At the beginning of 2024, there were approximately 12,100 nuclear weapons worldwide. The number of nuclear warheads has decreased significantly after...
5 days ago · They measure threats using the metaphor 1 of the Doomsday Clock, which in turn, is a metaphor for the risk of nuclear apocalypse. The reason real world clocks are circular is because the hours of the day are cyclical. They repeat! Clocks in BitD rarely, if ever, track cyclical events.
