The Doomsday Clock Remains at 3 Minutes to Midnight, But That's Horrible News

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced today that the Doomsday Clock, which represents our proximity to an apocalyptic event, will remain at three minutes to midnight. But that's still terrifying. “That decision is not good news but an

Doomsday Clock holds at three minutes to midnight. Tuesday, January 26, 2016 – 01:01. Scientists who maintain the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic countdown to global catastrophe, keep the clock at three minutes to midnight. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

With "utter dismay," the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Tuesday that the symbolic Doomsday Clock will hold at three minutes to midnight—at the "brink" of man-made apocalypse—because world leaders have failed to take the necessary steps

(AP) — Rising tension between Russia and the U.S., North Korea's recent nuclear test and a lack of aggressive steps to address climate change are putting the world under grave threat, scientists behind a “Doomsday Clock” that measures the likelihood

Here are all the things that might make The Bulletin push the clock even further than three minutes to midnight. At that point, the group – which is taken incredibly seriously and includes 16 Nobel laureates – will be proclaiming that humanity is more