The Doomsday Clock (wordpress.com)



The Doomsday Clock , which "measures" how far the world is to global disaster, will be moved Thursday by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists , who maintain the symbolic clock face. No one knows whether the clock will move closer to midnight (destruction) or not. The clock is currently set to 5 minutes before midnight.The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face that was created in 1947 by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago. It uses the idea of "minutes to midnight" to represent "catastrophic destruction." The closer the clock is to midnight, the closer the world is to destruction. The clock was adjusted last in 2007.The farthest the clock has ever been to midnight is 11:43, way back in 1991, when Russia and the US had just signed the Strategic Arms Control Treaty (START). The event will be streamed live on the Web at turnbacktheclock.org , from the New York Academy of Sciences at 10am EST.