A look at the history of the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic timepiece showing how close the world is to ending.
The new time on the Doomsday Clock will be announced on Tuesday (January 23) at 3pm.
Since last year, the Doomsday Clock has been set at 90 seconds to midnight.
This means the world is metaphorically closer to a man-made catastrophe than it has ever been since the first nuclear bombs were released at the end of the Second World War.
So, what is the Doomsday Clock and who started it? Here is everything you need to know before it is updated.
What is the Doomsday Clock?
The symbolic clock is a decades-long project of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in the US. It features a clock face where midnight represents Armageddon.
Experts in their fields, including 11 Nobel laureates, annually set the hands of the clock according to the world’s future. The time had been set at 100 seconds to midnight last year.
The new time answers two important questions: is humanity safer or at greater risk this year compared with 2022? And is humanity safer or at greater risk this year compared with the more than 75 years we have been asking the question?
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