Doomsday Clock 2023

From left: Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Siegfried S. Hecker, Daniel Holz, Sharon Squassoni, Mary Robinson and Elbegdorj Tsakhia stand for a ...

In 2016, the clock was at three minutes before midnight as a result of the Iran nuclear agreement and the Paris climate accord. “We at the Bulletin believe that because humans created these threats, we can reduce them,” Bronson said. Over the last three-quarters of a century, the clock’s time has changed according to how close the scientists believe the human race is to total destruction. “When the clock is at midnight, that means there’s been some sort of nuclear exchange or catastrophic climate change that’s wiped out humanity,” she said. When a new time is set on the clock, people listen, she said. In fact, the hand moved the farthest away from midnight — a whopping 17 minutes before the hour — in 1991, when then President George H.W. The US government, its NATO allies and Ukraine have a multitude of channels for dialogue; we urge leaders to explore all of them to their fullest ability to turn back the Clock.” The continuing threats posed by the climate crisis, as well as the breakdown of norms and institutions needed to reduce risks associated with biological threats like Covid-19, also played a role. From 2020 to 2022, the clock was set at 100 seconds to midnight. Mann, Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Earth and environmental science department at the University of Pennsylvania, told CNN in 2022, highlighting that the clock’s framing combines different types of risk that have different characteristics and occur in different timescales. “We are living in a time of unprecedented danger, and the Doomsday Clock time reflects that reality,” Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin, said in the release. [Midnight represents](https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/faq/#footer_menu_itm) the moment at which we will have made Earth uninhabitable for humanity.

Atomic scientists set the "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before on Tuesday, saying threats of nuclear war, disease, and climate volatility ...

With emissions still rising, weather extremes continue, and were even more clearly attributable to climate change," Kartha said, pointing to the devastating flooding in Pakistan in 2022 as an example. "Russia's thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict by accident, intention or miscalculation is a terrible risk. At 17 minutes to midnight, the clock was furthest from "doomsday" in 1991, as the Cold War ended and the United States and Soviet Union signed a treaty that substantially reduced both countries' nuclear weapons arsenals. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story The organization's board of scientists and other experts in nuclear technology and climate science, including 13 Nobel Laureates, discuss world events and determine where to place the hands of the clock each year. [Doomsday Clock](/lifestyle/science/what-is-doomsday-clock-how-does-it-work-2023-01-23/)," created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to illustrate how close humanity has come to the end of the world, moved its "time" in 2023 to 90 seconds to midnight, 10 seconds closer than it has been for the past three years.

Twice a year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists evaluate the state of the world and decide how close humanity is to the apocalypse.

Walk into a room to get your keys (10 seconds), forget what you went into the room for (20 seconds), leave the room (10 seconds), ask your housemate what you were looking for (10 seconds), wait for them to remember (20 seconds), be reminded about your keys (10 seconds), and walk into that room again to fetch your keys (10 seconds). The rest is a matter of time. It only takes a few seconds to ruin a holiday, so ostensibly you are able to ruin a number of holidays before the world ends. [Rise of the bots? Remember those things, and maybe the bad things too, like when you threw a plastic water bottle out your car window in the dead of night, or when you helped develop nuclear arms for an unstable authoritarian state. My mother always told me, “Building trust takes years, losing it takes seconds.” 90 seconds is not enough time to reconcile with your family, but in the event the apocalypse doesn’t happen, making amends can’t hurt. In 90 seconds, a driver can make it from [Liberty Park to the Hogle Zoo](https://goo.gl/maps/epofx2cruKoSdDMB6), or a little less than four gloriously fast miles. In the time it takes to microwave a frozen burrito, our world could be ash. The unit of time makes the Doomsday prediction feel fatalistic. [board of sponsors](https://thebulletin.org/about-us/board-of-sponsors/), which includes 13 Nobel Laureates. Since 2020, the clock has held at 100 seconds to midnight. They take into account nuclear risk, climate change, biological threats and other disruptive technologies capable of pushing the globe towards destruction.

The clock's new setting will be unveiled after a year filled with extreme weather events and fears of nuclear war.

- When it first appeared in 1947, the clock was set at seven minutes to midnight. [Manhattan Project](https://www.axios.com/2022/05/03/senate-radiation-exposure-law-atomic-trinity-test) started a newsletter called the ["Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists." [Science and Security Board](https://thebulletin.org/about-us/science-and-security-board/), who first consult with colleagues across a range of disciplines and with the Bulletin's [Board of Sponsors](https://thebulletin.org/about-us/board-of-sponsors-2/). and Soviet Union agreed to reduce their nuclear stockpiles. [2021](https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/2021-doomsday-clock-statement/)and [2022](https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/). - The Doomsday Clock image was first published in 1947, in the first issue of the Bulletin published as a magazine.