The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history. Here's a look at how — and why — it's moved.

The minute hand would shift in response to changing world events, with midnight representing complete annihilation. The clock was originally a design for a magazine cover, drawn by artist Martyl ...

The time of the clock is currently 89 seconds to midnight. The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents how close we are to destroying the world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It ...

the clock was set at seven minutes to midnight. Artist Martyl Langsdorf came up with the idea of the clock and set the time to symbolise the dangers of nuclear confrontation, on the front cover of ...

Artist Martyl Langsdorf was commissioned to design a new cover for the Bulletin of ... The artist first set the Doomsday Clock to seven minutes until midnight because “it looked good to my ...

She set it at seven minutes to midnight because 'it looked good to my eye', Langsdorf later said. On the cover of later issues in subsequent years, the hands of the clock were adjusted based on ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Atomic scientists on Tuesday moved their “Doomsday Clock” closer to midnight than ever before ... be broadened and expanded to cover other countries.

Artist Martyl Langsdorf was commissioned to design a new cover for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ... The artist first set the Doomsday Clock to seven minutes until midnight because “it looked ...

She set it at seven minutes to midnight because 'it looked good to my eye', Langsdorf later said. On the cover of later issues in subsequent years, the hands of the clock were adjusted based on ...

At this point the Doomsday Clock was set at 17 minutes to midnight and was even removed from the cover of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Though I wasn’t fully aware of it at the time ...