Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists members, from left, Jon B. Wolfsthal, Asha M. George and Steve Fetter reveal the Doomsday ...

(CNN) — At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, nearly eight decades later, the ...

The Doomsday Clock is now the closest it has ever been to midnight. Scientists have set the symbolic Clock at 85 seconds to midnight, issuing a dire warning about the apocalyptic danger of nuclear ...

The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than ever before, in what appears to be an ominous warning about the state of our world. Released every year by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, this ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor, not a mechanical forecast, but it is built on concrete assessments of global risk. Created in the late 1940s by scientists who had worked on nuclear weapons, it was ...

But the idea that we are almost at the point of no return via the Doomsday Clock is no longer useful or helpful. This is especially the case since the doom symbolized by the clock has become more ...