In 2023, the clock moved to 90 seconds to midnight after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and broke the ...

A small group of scientists and policy experts meet behind closed doors in Chicago to decide how close humanity is to ...

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...

Eighty years after the founding of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and 55 years after the first Earth Day, humanity faces a growing profusion of existential threats. Most people—including ...

The commentator Michael Shellenberger got it exactly right. “The EU wants X to give its data to government-selected ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is little more than a decade older than the field of artificial intelligence, whose birth can arguably be traced back to the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on ...

There is an expectation that accompanies writing near and about anniversaries, and nuclear anniversaries are no exception to the rule. Other experts and I have followed the general anniversary format ...

Wasn't the world supposed to end back in 2012? Physicist Heinz von Foerster, who passed away in 2002, claimed back in 1960 in the "Science" publication that the world would end sometime in the 2020s, ...

The worlds first hydrogen bomb, codenamed 'Mike'. Nuclear weapons testing conducted by the US at Bikini and Enewtak atolls in ...

Nuclear experts are urging the public to demand concrete steps to reduce the risk of devastation due to nuclear weapons.

We’re once again approaching the annual resetting of the Doomsday Clock. Last January, the Science and Security Board of the ...