When it began this annual tradition, the BAS set the time at seven minutes to midnight. Following the first test of the hydrogen bomb, the doomsday clock ticked to two minutes before midnight in 1953.

The clock at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland, traditionally runs three minutes fast and is set back to match Greenwich Mean Time only on Dec. 31. This year, it will keep running fast.

Faced with inadequate progress on nuclear weapons reduction and proliferation, and continuing inaction on climate change, the University of Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced ...

Here's What Happens If The Countdown Clock Goes Over 30 Seconds, And I Gasped. ... Though it’s just a theory, he adds, “I’m sure that it hasn’t ticked round a full minute.

The world is closer to doomsday. That’s the message from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which moved its iconic Doomsday Clock up two minutes on Thursday. The clock now stands at three ...

The Doomsday Clock has been set back a single minute for the first time in its 63-year history. In moving the clock from five minutes before midnight to six minutes before midnight, scientists ...

The clock’s great innovation does away with the minutes hand, and it turns out it was never that important anyway. Instead, it measures time in 5-minute chunks, with 12 ticks separating each of ...