There's a new record holder for the most accurate clock in the world. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and ...

This is the farthest the clock's minute hand has been from doomsday, indicating the group's momentary optimism at the official end of the Cold War. 1995: 14 Minutes to Midnight Maybe we were a ...

In response, the bulletin moved the clock to 17 minutes to midnight. The clock did not change during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 because “too little was known at the time about the ...

The Bulletin has reset the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock 26 times since its debut in 1947, most recently in 2025 when we moved it from 90 seconds to midnight to 89 seconds to midnight. Every time ...

The furthest from midnight it has ever been was in 1991, when it was set at 17 minutes to midnight after the U.S. and the Soviet Union signed the first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, followed by ...

The Doomsday Clock is ... the hand moved the farthest away from midnight — a whopping 17 minutes before the hour — in 1991, when then-President George H.W. Bush’s administration signed ...

On January 24, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock from 100 seconds to midnight to 90 seconds to midnight, reflecting their experts’ opinion about ...

During that time, the clock was set at seven minutes to midnight. But after the Soviet Union successfully tested its first atomic bomb in 1949, Rabinowitch, who was then the bulletin’s editor ...