Experts warn the real AI threat is not destruction, but subtle manipulation that makes us surrender willingly.

Those who keep up on current events know that talk of nuclear war continues today, and that’s why “Two Minutes to Midnight and the Architecture of Armageddon,” a new exhibit about the Doomsday Clock ...

If full-blown world conflict breaks out, there are a number of places across the globe which would probably be safe.

After the US and Soviet Union became capable of Mutually Assured Destruction, safeguards were put in place to prevent World ...

Once a staple in Dallas and Fort Worth, fallout shelters now are hard to find, reflecting a bygone era of Cold War fears amid today's global tensions over nuclear threats.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the science-oriented advocacy group which created the clock during the Cold War, set the time at 89 seconds to midnight – the closest it has ever been. The ...

The clock was its farthest from midnight — a sizable 17 minutes — in 1991, with the end of the Cold War and the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the U.S. and Soviet Union.

Before midnight In a way, the Doomsday Clock is a victim of its own success as an unparalleled symbol of 20th-century, Cold War nuclear fear.

In January 2023, the Doomsday Clock was set at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest to midnight it has ever been, in large part because of the nuclear threat posed by Russia’s war on Ukraine.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock in 1947 during the Cold War tensions that followed World War II to warn the public about how close humankind was to destroying the world.