The Doomsday clock will tick forward next week to reflect the world’s worsening nuclear and climate threats.

The clock which is maintained by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago is a symbolic representation of how far away mankind is from destruction (midnight). It is curently set at seven minutes to midnight where is has been since 2002, however issues such as escalating world terrorism, the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea and the fact that both the USA and Russia continue to keep a large number of nukes in “launch-ready” status will see it move closer to midnight.
The clock has been as close as two minutes to midnight in 1953 after US and Soviet hydrogen bomb tests and as far as seventeen minutes to midnight in 1991 after the US and the Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
When the doomsday clock was created in 1947 it was initially set at seven minutes to midnight.

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