Symbolic clock is currently set at 5 minutes to midnight. Jan. 14, 2010— -- Is humanity approaching an apocalypse? Today, a group of international scientists will move the hands of the symbolic ...

The surprise announcement that the United States is planning to resume nuclear testing is sending shockwaves through the ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Thursday said that the proverbial "Doomsday Clock" remained at 100 seconds to midnight — or, as the group put it, "at doom's doorstep." The "Doomsday Clock" ...

Civilization is still as close to worldwide destruction as it was last year. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists unveiled in Washington D.C. on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" will remain ...

A panel of scientists and scholars said Thursday they believe the world is as close as it has ever been to a so-called doomsday scenario. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which has been tracking the ...

Earlier this year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that it was moving the hands of the Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds before midnight, a symbolic hour signifying global catastrophe. The ...

The risk of nuclear war and the threat of climate change have caused the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to move the Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to catastrophe to two minutes to midnight. This ...

Moscow: Eight decades after the United States struck Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the world is beginning to witness the same shadows returning. Cities have not fallen, but the ...

Wednesday marks the 80th anniversary of when the U.S. employed the first ever nuclear bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, followed by the bombing of Nagasaki three days later on Aug. 9. But ...

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