The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists will reveal the clock hands' current position on Thursday. In 2019, they were at two minutes before midnight.

THE Doomsday Clock 2020 is counting down to midnight and today the world will find out if it stands on the brink of annihilation - but what is the Doomsday Clock and what time is it set to right now?

WASHINGTON -- The Doomsday Clock was reset to 100 seconds to midnight, meaning the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists does not think the world is a safer place in 2020.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is moving the Doomsday Clock up to 100 seconds to midnight — a metaphor for the end of the world — in a recognition of growing threats from nuclear war ...

Symbolizing “the gravest perils facing humankind,” the clock is now closer to midnight than at any point since its inception in 1947.

The Doomsday Clock was created by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947, and is designed to warn the public about how close we are to destroying the world with dangerous technologies.

The Doomsday Clock moved to 100 seconds to midnight – the closest symbolic point from an “apocalypse” since 1953.

The Doomsday Clock is now 100 seconds to midnight, closer than ever in its 73-year history. The researchers behind the clock cited increasing tensions between nuclear-armed nations, the climate ...

WASHINGTON -- The Doomsday Clock was reset to 100 seconds to midnight, meaning the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists does not think the world is a safer place in 2020.