Midnight represents the moment at which people will have made Earth uninhabitable.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists cited risks of nuclear war, climate change, potential misuse of biotechnology and the ...

Atomic scientists have set the Doomsday Clock to it’s worst-ever rating, flagging ‘the threat of explosive nuclear’ activity ...

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...

Scientists have set their Doomsday Clock closer than ever ‍to midnight, citing aggressive behaviour by nuclear powers, among other concerns.

For a third year in a row, atomic scientists have moved the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight, the theoretical point of annihilation.

The Doomsday Clock reset for 2026 is now at 85 seconds to midnight, four seconds less than the reset in January 2025.

The military has often used cyberweapons in discreet operations — like damaging Iran’s nuclear centrifuges by altering their ...

Two Iranian-backed militias in the Mideast are signaling their willingness to launch new attacks, likely trying to back Iran, ...

At the 2026 Doomsday Clock announcement, the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board moved the Doomsday Clock forward from 89 seconds to 85 seconds to midnight, citing a failure in global leadership.

Trump in October ordered the US military to restart the process for testing nuclear weapons after a halt of more than three decades. No nuclear power, other than North Korea most recently in 2017, has ...