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- 2025 Doomsday Clock Statement - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock two years later, using the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero) to convey threats to humanity and the
- Doomsday Clock - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet When the Doomsday Clock was created in 1947, the greatest danger to humanity came from nuclear weapons, in particular from the prospect that the United
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists informs the public about threats to the survival and development of humanity from nuclear weapons, climate change, and emerging technologies in the life sciences
- About Us - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
About the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists About us The Bulletin equips the public, policymakers, and scientists with the information needed to reduce man-made threats to our existence The Bulletin began as an emergency action, created by scientists who saw an immediate need for a public reckoning in the aftermath of the atomic bombings of … Continued
- FAQ - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet When the Doomsday Clock was created in 1947, the greatest
- Doomsday Clock Timeline
The Clock Starts Running The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists changes its format from a newsletter to a magazine Its first cover features a clock, both conceptualized and designed by artist Martyl Langsdorf At the time, Langsdorf designed it because “it seemed the right time on the page … it suited my eye ” This purely aesthetic design later becomes known as the “Doomsday Clock
- Climate Change Archives - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
In 1978, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published a cover story titled “Is mankind warming the Earth?” The answer then, as now, was an “unqualified ‘yes ’” Between July 2023 and June 2024, the average global temperature was over 1 5 degrees Celsius (or 2 7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the pre-industrial average, the result of over a century of rampant fossil fuel use and
- Russian nuclear weapons, 2025 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Russia's nuclear modernization program has faced significant challenges and delays We estimate that Russia now possesses about 4,309 nuclear warheads
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