The Doomsday Clock was designed to be a graphic warning to the public about how close humanity has come to destroying the world with potentially dangerous technologies. The clock was established ...

The Doomsday Clock is perhaps the most sobering graphic symbol ever created: a quarter of a clock with four big dots to mark ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board shifted the hands of its Doomsday Clock, a graphic that represents how close humanity is to the brink of destruction ...

The iconic symbol was updated in 2007 by graphic designer Michael Bierut. However, while it is just a metaphor, the Doomsday Clock is a stark reminder of perils that our species is facing.

Is it the end of the world as we know it? The Doomsday Clock now indicates that we’re metaphorically one second closer to it than we were last year — the closest humanity has ever been to ...

It’s also hard to ignore the recurring visual theme of the Doomsday Clock in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's seminal "Watchmen" graphic novel series (1986–87), its 2009 film adaptation ...

Since 1947, the Doomsday Clock has ticked away the minutes toward—or away from—annihilation. Each year, researchers at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists decide where the hands on the ...

The Doomsday Clock, reset each January ... Luckily, the Chicago-based scientists in charge didn’t have to look far for a graphic designer. Martyl Langsdorf, a celebrated landscape artist ...

that the classic 1980s Watchmen graphic novel used it as an unforgettable central motif. Like James Bond movies and Rambo films, though, the Doomsday Clock suffered after the end of the Cold War ...

Humanity is closer than ever to catastrophe, according to the atomic scientists behind the Doomsday Clock. The ominous metaphor ticked one second closer to midnight this week. The clock now stands ...