Jan 24, 2023
(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The Doomsday clock is closer to midnight now than ever before after scientists announced Tuesday they had inched the hands 10 seconds forward to 90 seconds until midnight. "We are living in a time of unprecedented danger, and the Doomsday Clock time reflects that reality," Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said in a statement, per NBC News. Bronson added that the decision to move the hands of the clock is not one their experts take lightly. The symbolic Doomsday Clock was unveiled in 1947 to serve as a metaphor for public and world leaders to convey the proximity of threats to humanity, the outlet reported. At that time, the clock was set to 7-minutes until midnight or human-caused apocalypse. Though the clock moved up to 2-minutes to midnight as tensions in the Cold War mounted, the clock was set back to 7 minutes in 1960 and remained so, even through the Cuban Missile Crisis, according to the