The Doomsday Clock works by judging how near the minute hand is to midnight – simply put, the nearer it is, the closer the Earth is to disaster. The clock is set every year by the Bulletin’s ...

The expression “x minutes to midnight” is associated with the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic representation of how far (or near) ...

O'clock is a way of telling the exact hour on a clock. We say "o'clock" when the minute hand (the long hand) points to the number 12 on the clock. When the minute hand points straight up to 12 ...

It followed the aesthetic of public clocks of that era. It featured a minimalistic large face with smaller dots and a white minute hand that was much thinner than the black hour hand, which was ...

Minutes to Midnight, is a reference to the hands of the Doomsday Clock. At the time the album was released in 2007, the Clock stood at 5 minutes to midnight. "Hoping to continue its colossal success, ...

After the Soviet Union successfully tested its first atomic bomb in 1949, Rabinowitch reset the clock from seven minutes to midnight to three minutes to midnight. When were the hands set closest to ...

In 2007, the Bulletin began including catastrophic disruptions from climate change in its hand-setting deliberations. The furthest the clock has been set was 17 minutes to midnight, in 1991, after the ...

The scientists placed the hands of the 1947 clock at seven minutes to midnight. Since then it has moved closer to and farther away from midnight, depending on world events. In the early days of the ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists made the annual announcement — which rates how close humanity is from ending — citing ...