The clock was created using the imagery of the apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero). Midnight is the time that represents Doomsday. Factors ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how close humanity ... and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero) to convey threats to humanity and the Earth. Tuesday marks the ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphorical representation of ... The clock uses the imagery of a countdown to midnight to convey the urgency of threats such as nuclear war, climate change, biological ...

the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock two years later, using the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close ... When it was originally launched, the clock’s countdown referred to an exchange of nuclear weapons, which would have large-scale ...

The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic countdown to human extinction established in 1947, remains at 90 seconds to midnight for the second year in a row as the panel updates a decades-old international ...

The clock is described as “a metaphor” and ... War and reducing the threat of nuclear war. To calculate the countdown to doomsday this year, the bulletin will take into account the Russia ...

The Doomsday Clock, reset each January ... were the clock’s hands this far into the final countdown. That’s a pretty grim way to celebrate your 75th birthday, but as Bulletin editor John ...

That’s the annual question posed by the keepers of the Doomsday Clock. It's not an actual clock, but it is an urgent warning to humanity — a metaphorical yet nevertheless ominous countdown to ...

but another unnerving countdown is upon us. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will update the Doomsday Clock—a metaphorical device to warn the public about our proximity to self-destruction ...

It was referred to as absurd, something out of science-fiction and a Doomsday ... a digital timer — similar to the one used for public comment — so speakers could see the countdown.