Nuclear Disarmament

Failure to act on the climate crisis and renewed nuclear escalation have left the world the closest it's ever been to man-made global catastrophe, the scientists behind the Doomsday Clock said Thursday.The profoundly unstable situation is being torqued by the rising power of disinformation and a shift away from the…

Former California Gov. Jerry Brown, executive chair of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, left, former President of Ireland Mary Robinson and former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during a presentation showing the Doomsday Clock during an event in Washington D.C. on Jan. 23, 2020. BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS/TNS By ANGIE…

World / 23 January 2020, 9:21pm / Staff ReporterFile picture: Noah Berger / AP.WASHINGTON - The keepers of the Doomsday Clock on Thursday moved the symbolic countdown to global disaster to the closest point to midnight in its 73-year history, citing “existential danger” from nuclear war and climate change. The Bulletin of the Atomic…

"The Australian government is in utter and complete denial," he said. "Under its current leadership, Australia is fostering denial in an incredibly mendacious way. "Until Australians throw out their current leaders they will continue this way ... It's time …

WASHINGTON  — The keepers of the Doomsday Clock on Thursday moved the symbolic countdown to global disaster to the closest point to midnight in its 73-year history, citing “existential danger” from nuclear war and climate change. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which was founded after the creation of the…

WASHINGTON — The keepers of the Doomsday Clock on Thursday moved the symbolic countdown to global disaster to the closest point to midnight in its 73-year history, citing "existential danger" from nuclear war and climate change. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which was founded after the creation of the…

WASHINGTON - The keepers of the Doomsday Clock on Thursday moved the symbolic countdown to global disaster to the closest point to midnight in its 73-year history, citing existential danger from nuclear war and climate change. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scie…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The keepers of the Doomsday Clock on Thursday moved the symbolic countdown to global disaster to the closest point to midnight in its 73-year history, citing “existential danger” from nuclear war and climate change.The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which was founded after the creation of the…

The Doomsday clock has ticked forwards 20 seconds and stands just 100 seconds to midnight due to increased nuclear tensions and climate change, bringing us closer to the apocalypse than ever before. The clock was founded by the US scientists involved in the …

WASHINGTON - The iconic Doomsday Clock symbolizing the gravest perils facing humankind is now closer to midnight than at any point since its creation in 1947. To underscore the need for action, the time on the Doomsday Clock is now being expressed in seconds, rather than minutes: Today, the Bulletin…