The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the clock to 85 seconds before midnight, the theoretical point of annihilation.
Midnight represents the moment at which people will have made Earth uninhabitable.
At the 2026 Doomsday Clock announcement, the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board moved the Doomsday Clock forward from 89 seconds to 85 seconds to midnight, citing a failure in global leadership.
The clock is a symbolic way to show the public how close scientists believe the world is to a human-made apocalypse.
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