Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock” to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ever been.

The clock is meant as a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which has maintained it since 1947. The group was founded two years earlier by University of Chicago scientists who had helped develop the first nuclear weapons for the Manhattan Project.

The metaphorical clock measures how close humanity is to self-destruction, because of nuclear disaster, climate change, AI and misinformation.

Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock ... countries such as North Korea, Russia and China in developing ...

The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic representation of the threat of human extinction, with midnight representing catastrophe.

(AP) — Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock ... countries such as North Korea, Russia and China ...

Each year for the past 78 years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published a new Doomsday Clock ... and countries like North Korea that are not part of the global order, who might ...

The Doomsday Clock shows the global community faces the three-headed catastrophe of global warming, pandemics and nuclear weapons use.

In a statement outlining the change, the Board highlighted three main reasons for “moving the Doomsday Clock from 90 seconds to 89 seconds to midnight.” These include ongoing nuclear risks, accelerating climate disasters, and emerging biological and technological dangers.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the science-oriented advocacy group which created the clock during the Cold War, set the time at 89 seconds to midnight – the closest it h

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