Doomsday Clock Moves to Five Minutes to Midnight

January 2007
Doomsday Clock Moves to Five Minutes to Midnight

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock conveys how close humanity is to
catastrophic destruction--the figurative midnight--and monitors the means humankind could use to
obliterate itself. First and foremost, these include nuclear weapons, but they also encompass
climate-changing technologies and new developments in the life sciences and nanotechnology that
could inflict irrevocable harm.