The press conference of the group of experts updating The Doomsday Clock took place on January 28, 2025. Unlike last year, when the seconds leading up to the end of the world did not move, The Doomsday Clock has gained one second, leaving just 89 seconds until the end of time. Humanity has never been so close to midnight, not least because of the continuing conflict in Ukraine and Gaza, but also because of Trump's return to power and the development of artificial intelligence.
If you think this is a group of enlightened lunatics, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has 13 Nobel Prize winners in its ranks. In 2020, Rachel Bronson, President and CEO of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, declared that"the time separating the world from catastrophe is now expressedin seconds, not hours or minutes". We were then 100 seconds away from the end of the world.
When it was created after the Second World War, despite the dropping of two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the clock read 23:53, midnight being the time of the end of the world (The Doomsday). But if the Doomsday Clock project focused on nuclear power, the development of biological weapons, military technologies and climate change due to human development also come into play.
With the coronavirus health crisis, Iran's nuclear declarations and the melting icecap, Rachel Bronson explains that countries have seen a pile of dominoes fall due to their decades-long mismanagement of countries. She castigates governments for being unprepared for the worst dangers facing their citizens, and points out that"advancing the timetable is a decision our experts don't take lightly", to warn of impending catastrophe.
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