A time of unprecedented danger:
It is 90 seconds to midnight
2023 Doomsday Clock Statement
This year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists moves the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward, largely (though not
exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine. The Clock
now stands at 90 seconds to midnight — the closest to global catastrophe it has
ever been.
Founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein and University of Chicago scientists
who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock two years later,
using the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of
nuclear explosion (countdown to zero) to convey threats to humanity and the
planet. The Doomsday Clock is set every year by the Bulletin’s Science and
Security Board in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes 10
Nobel laureates. The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the
world’s vulnerability to global catastrophe caused by manmade technologies.
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