Doomsday Clock

Doomsday Clock

Fig. 1. “The atomic cloud over Nagasaki 1945.” Photograph from Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch, New York Office, News and Features Bureau, (12/17/1942 – 09/15/1945), by Charles Levy, August 9, 1945, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Rachel Roubein, “Doomsday Clock one minute closer to doom,” McClatchy, January 10, 2012, https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24721864.html

Dahr Jamail, “Are We Falling Off the Climate Precipice? Scientists Consider Extinction,” TomDispatch, December 17, 2013, http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175785/tomgram%3A_dahr_jamail%2C_the_climate_change_scorecard/

Robert Socolow et al., “An open letter to President Obama: The time on the Doomsday Clock is five minutes to midnight,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 14, 2013, http://thebulletin.org/open-letter-president-obama-time-doomsday-clock-five-minutes-midnight

Edward “Rocky” Kolb et al., “Three minutes and counting,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 19, 2015, http://thebulletin.org/three-minutes-and-counting7938

Nathan Curry, “Humanity Is Getting Verrrrrrry Close to Extinction,” Vice, August 21, 2015, http://www.vice.com/read/near-term-extinctionists-believe-the-world-is-going-to-end-very-soon

Ian Simpson, “Doomsday Clock stays unchanged at three minutes to midnight,” Reuters, January 26, 2016, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-doomsday-clock/doomsday-clock-stays-unchanged-at-three-minutes-to-midnight-idUSKCN0V42KO

Phil Torres and Peter Boghossian, “The Looming Extinction of Humankind, Explained,” Vice, August 18, 2016, https://www.vice.com/en/article/vv7pzb/armageddon-comma-explained

Andrew Sheeler, “Jerry Brown urges America to ‘wake up’ as Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight,” Sacramento Bee, January 23, 2020, https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article239564083.html

Paulina Firozi, “Doomsday Clock at 100 seconds to midnight for third year in a row: ‘Steady is not good news,’” Washington Post, January 20, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/01/20/doomsday-clock-100-seconds/

Rachel Koning Beals, “Russia-Ukraine war leaves Doomsday Clock closest to ‘crisis’ hour of midnight in report’s 76-year history,” Bloomberg, January 24, 2023, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/russia-ukraine-war-leaves-doomsday-clock-the-closest-to-crisis-midnight-in-reports-76-year-history-11674573997

John Mecklin, “A time of unprecedented danger: It is 90 seconds to midnight,” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, January 24, 2023, https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/

Oliver Holmes, “Wars and climate crisis keep Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight,” Guardian, January 23, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/23/wars-and-climate-crisis-see-doomsday-clock-stay-at-90-seconds-to-midnight

John Mecklin, “A moment of historic danger: It is still 90 seconds to midnight,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 23, 2024, https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/